You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived

Quote by Gertrude Stein

Topics: Living Quotes

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha...

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha...

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though...

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though...

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four...

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four...

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there...

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there...

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with...

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with...

Money is always there but the pockets change

Money is always there but the pockets change

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to...

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to...

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

There is no there there.

There is no there there.

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing...

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing...

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence...

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence...