Life Limitation Quotes

I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

A man who limits his interests, limits his life.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.

A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.

No one should live beyond 30.