Unfinished Life Quotes

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled.

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.