“You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.”
Source: Seize the Day
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Saul Bellow103
Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005Related quotes
Russell Baker (1925–2019) writer and satirst from the United States
"Back to the Dump" (p.414)
There's a Country in My Cellar (1990)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 299
“What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”
Art Spiegelman (1948) cartoonist from the United States
As quoted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (1995) edited by Lawrence Sutin, p. x.
Paulo Coelho book Aleph
Source: Aleph (2011)
Context: It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"Born in the U.S.A."
Song lyrics, Born in the U.S.A. (1984)