Sorting Life Quotes

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

Mark Nepo

#2. 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

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

Camron Wright

#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. Because of school policy I don't think it wise to risk having any sort of romantic relationship, Alicia.

Cherry Kay

#6. An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

Samuel Butler

#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. Sometimes there's luck,
When there is you stock up on it
and wait for the other times

Charles Bukowski

#9. I visited Surrey in the early fall of 1994, and I would return only if I was tasked to kill a demon to save the world. Maybe not even then. Sorry, Surrey. Sorry, world. Yay, hypothetical demon.

Patton Oswalt

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#11. I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

Jenny Eclair

#12. In bed," she said calmly. "I want you to come to bed with me.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. No type of therapy compares to accomplishing heavy and intimidating goals.

Miriam Khalladi

#14. This is all made worse by the fact that I'm competitive. Not normal-people competitive. Not friendly competitive. Scary-psychotic competitive. Never hand me a volleyball. Don't ask me to play a fun hand of cards. I have never heard of a casual round of Scrabble.

Shonda Rhimes

#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. 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

#17. 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

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

Bruce Springsteen

#19. Music will always be my greatest passion.

Vanessa Mae

#20. 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

#21. I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.

Danielle Panabaker

#22. 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

#23. sometimes I need for you to pretend you love me

Lori Jenessa Nelson

#24. 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

#25. What it's like being the balloon, when someone lets go of the string. Kennedy

Jodi Picoult

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

T.B. Christensen

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

Nina Montgomery