Life Quotes Quote by John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”

“My life is a reading list.”

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.”

““Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,”

“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”

““Would you like to know your future?”

“I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”