Quotes About Sorting Your Life Out

#1. I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

Lalo Schifrin

#2. If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?

Camron Wright

#3. Curiosity killed the cat, you know, but satisfaction brought him back snap-ass happy.

Stephen King

#4. You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you've found life. I'm no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are 'yours' and which are 'mine.' It's past sorting out.

Thomas Pynchon

#5. Be fair before being generous, be human before being fair.

Fernan Caballero

#6. I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Jay Parini

#7. By sorting out her wardrobe it felt as if he was saying goodbye to her all over again. He was clearing her out of his life. With

Phaedra Patrick

#8. I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

Nathan Rabin

#9. Don't let your life be steered by your reluctance to do a little extra thinking.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#10. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. ~ Spenser

Robert B. Parker

#11. I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.

Peter Morgan

#12. The intensity of her pleasure at this compliment surprised her, and she dropped her eyes. I but wear the only dress I own, and I misdoubt whether mine hair be well-combed even now.

Werner A. Lind

#13. Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

Virgil

#14. A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'

Tommy Cooper

#15. All I do know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier...much heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusing to do that sorting rises higher and higher.

Bruce Springsteen

#16. Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.

Bobby Locke

#17. A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)

Jonathan Kellerman

#18. I've learned to appreciate what I've got. I'm not going to waste an ounce of energy on sorting through the past or with worrying about the future. Life's too short for that.

Chris Coppernoll

#19. This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal.

Ryu Murakami

#20. But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

Bruce Springsteen

#21. I was the nicest person you'd ever want to know," Alex recalls, "but the world wasn't that way. The problem was that if you were just a nice person, you'd get crushed. I refused to live a life where people could do that stuff to me.

Susan Cain

#22. Clearly some complicated process of sorting-out was in progress among those who surrounded me: though only years later did I become aware how early such voluntary segregations begin to develop; and of how they continue throughout life.

Anthony Powell

#23. What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get - the more specificity you harvest - the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm.

Gregory Maguire

#24. To read makes our speaking English good.

Joss Whedon

#25. For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

Honore De Balzac

#26. I thought about how I had now let a self-proclaimed lunatic into my house twice and considered the possibility that my life needed sorting out.

Rasmenia Massoud

#27. In life, you will hear many fantastical and astounding things, what is important is sorting out the fact from the fiction.

T.B. Christensen

#28. I am having the most wonderful time sorting myself out!

Nina Montgomery

#29. When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

Mark Nepo

#30. Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

Honore De Balzac