Stephen R. Donaldson Quotes

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.

You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

In the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

You've got to understand and accept that nothing in the world is perfect. The sooner you understand that, the better it will be.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.

Life, what is it but a dream?

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?