Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
Fawn M. Brodie
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never... →
Harold Brodkey
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book.... →
Joseph Brodsky
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
Adam Brody