Life Quotes Quote by Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.”

“There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy... So long as we persist in this inborn error... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in things great and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of what is called disappointment.”

“I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.”

“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”

“Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.”

“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that”