Life Quotes Quote by John Updike, A Month of Sundays — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”

“You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.”

“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

“An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

“We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.”