„I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.“

„If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.“

—  Tommy Newberry American writer

Quelle: Success is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices Change Your Life

„It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: "I don't know."“

—  W. Somerset Maugham British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874 - 1965

Quelle: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 258

„Our life is ordinary,
I read in a crumpled paper
abandoned on a bench.
Our life is ordinary,
the philosophers told me.“

—  Adam Zagajewski Poet 1945

Ordinary Life, Ordinary Life, September 11, 2011, Adam Zagajewski, The New Yorker, November 26, 2007 http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2007/11/26/071126po_poem_zagajewski,

„Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.“

—  Nina Simone American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist 1933 - 2003

„Talk about your life
I'd like to know
It's not easy going
Where no-one goes
And no-one knows…“

—  Mike Oldfield English musician, multi-instrumentalist 1953

Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)

„I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.“

—  Anna Akhmatova Russian modernist poet 1889 - 1966

"This Cruel Age has deflected me..." (1944)
Quelle: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

„Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.“

—  Henry Rollins American singer-songwriter 1961

„I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion.“

—  Erica Jong, buch Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

„Life is funny. Life isn't categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it? So I don't know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy or… I want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know?“

—  Jennifer Aniston television and film actress from the United States 1969

Primetime interview (Jan 2004)

„You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life“

—  Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

Quelle: Annie Hall: Screenplay

„I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea….“

—  Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

Quelle: And Then There Were None

„I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.“

—  Miranda July American performance artist, musician and writer 1974

Quelle: No One Belongs Here More Than You

„You know what the trick of a long life is, Sharpe? Stay out of range.“

—  Bernard Cornwell British writer 1944

Doctor Pickering, p. 133
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Trafalgar (2000)

„I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.“

—  Ransom Riggs, buch Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children

Quelle: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 11, Page 351

„That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, buch Safe Haven

Quelle: Safe Haven

„If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.“

—  Henry James American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843 - 1916

Said to Hamlin Garland in 1906 and quoted by Garland in Roadside Meetings (1930; reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-417-90788-6, ch. XXXVI: Henry James at Rye (p. 461).

„When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.“

—  Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

„I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.“

—  Edith Wharton American novelist, short story writer, designer 1862 - 1937

„How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.“

—  Philip Roth American novelist 1933 - 2018

Quelle: The Professor Of Desire