Life Quotes Quote by John Fowles — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?'”

“I don't believe in God. And I certainly don't feel chosen.”

“There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.”

“Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.”

“When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.”

“Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he did not believe in God. His father, the king, told him that such things did not exist. As there were no princesses or islands in his father's domains, and no sign of God, the young prince believed his father.”

“and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.”

“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”

“What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“في الطريق إلى قمة الجبل نحتاج إلى صديق حتى نشاركه روعة المنظر”

“Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.”