“The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.”

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Source: The Artist's Way

Source: The Hiding Place

On meurt toujours trop tôt - ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée : le trait est tiré, il faut faire la somme. Tu n'es rien d'autre que ta vie.
Inès, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)

Source: The Book of Strange New Things

Source: An Echo in the Bone

Variant: You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.
Source: Gone Girl

Source: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 6 (p. 87)

From the eighth book, "The Book of the Seducer"
The Pillow Book