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

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...

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing...

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing...

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

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

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

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget...

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget...

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world...

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world...

If you can do it then why do it?

If you can do it then why do it?

History takes time. History makes memory.

History takes time. History makes memory.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch...

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch...

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

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...

We are always the same age inside.

We are always the same age inside.