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 takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around...

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to...

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to...

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

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

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets...

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets...

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

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

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by...

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by...

We are always the same age inside.

We are always the same age inside.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is...

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is...

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

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...

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that...

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that...

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut...

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut...

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a...

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a...

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an...

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an...

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.