"But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off."

Life, Time, Men, End

38

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off."

Exlpore more Life quotes

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Personal Development

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Life, Love, Purpose, Desire

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Life, Thought, End, Emotion

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Life, Goal, Artist, Mind

"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

P. G. Wodehouse, English Writer

Life, Despair, Salvation, Worth

"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Creation, Truth, Wisdom

"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Faith, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

Life, Positivity, Happiness, Love

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Life, Painting

"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

Stephen King, American Author

Life, Death, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by Martin C. Smith

"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."

People

"The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself."

Being

"I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans."

Poetry

"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about."

People

"The fact is that I loved being in England."

Being

"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."

Class

"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books."

Thought

"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."

Class

"I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer."

Time

"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right."

People