Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.

Everyone has a different life story. Things happen rapidly for someone, and things move slowly for others.

What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Like Ivan [Reitman] has said, there's a lot that a life encompasses.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.