Quotes About Not Letting Life Pass By

#1. What is the biggest tragedy you wouldn't be conscious of? Letting life pass you by. Living like a starfish, clinging to your one unchanging colorless rock.

Julia Glass

#2. I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. Without people coming in to our lives we never evolve, we just remain stagnant. Surely there is more to life than standing still whilst letting it pass you by. What's even worse, is living a life pretending to be someone, or something that you believe others want you to be.

Skye High

#4. THE DOWNFALL OF ambition is sometimes letting life pass you by and only realizing it did so after the fact.

Claire Contreras

#5. The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

Randolph Bourne

#6. I don't fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

Richard Pryor

#8. If you don't start going after WHAT YOU WANT, then you will NEVER GET WHAT YOU WANT! Do you want to be on your death bed wondering, 'WHAT IF? WHAT IF I would've quit letting life pass me by and just went for it?!' JUST GO FOR IT! LIVE ALL OUT!

Shay Dawkins

#9. Allow your heart to be so wrapped up in God that a guy has to ask for directions to get to it.

Chad Eastham

#10. I'm a million different things every day of the week.

Cecelia Ahern

#11. I'd already fallen in lust with Kael before then, but in that moment, he stole a little piece of my heart too.

Rochelle Paige

#12. Write naked. That means to write what you would never say.
Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can't waste it.
Write in exile, as if you are never going to get home again, and you have to call back every detail.

Denis Johnson

#13. I was used to shooting beer cans off the back of an old washing machine, or at things that ran away from me that I intended to eat - not things that ran toward me with the intent of eating me.
I'd found that to be a significant difference.

Lisa Shearin

#14. The real success story of branding in recent decades has been the way in which companies have used their brands to turn the satisfaction of complex and even spiritual needs into commercial transactions.

Simon Anholt

#15. I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

E.P. Thompson

#16. Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

Richard Clarke Cabot

#17. Of bones the city is made,
Plastered with flesh and blood,
Where decay and death are deposited,
And pride, and ingratitude.

Gautama Buddha

#18. History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

Dejan Stojanovic

#19. Behind every success, there lies a magical word: Dare!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

F Scott Fitzgerald