55 Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?

To know another, and to be known by another--that is everything.

I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.