Quotes about life

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“Peace and joy are not things you attain at the end of life. They are the basis of your life.”

“Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.”

“Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”

“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.”

“Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.”

“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”

“What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.”

“The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”

“Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.”

“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned”

“Money can't buy you life”

“Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes”

“Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it”

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”

“Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.”

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”

“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”

“Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.”

“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”

“Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.”

“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

“A beautiful thing is precious, no matter the price. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy…”

“There is no such thing as an ordinary life.”

“Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through”

“Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.”

“The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.”

“His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.”

“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”

“… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.”

“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”

“And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”

“You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.”

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”

“Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.”

“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.”

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

“And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.”

“Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.”

“Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.”

“Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.”

“Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.”

“As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?”

“Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peek of diversity. Then we appeared. We are the great meteorite.”

“It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.”

“It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?”

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”

“No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.”

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

“Jack: “Gwendolen, wait here for me.”
Gwendolen: “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

“He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.”

“I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!”

“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.”

“I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.”

“It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?”

“I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.”

“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?”

“We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.”

“Do not yearn, O my soul, for immortal life!
Use to the utmost
the skill that is yours.”

“When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.”

“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.”

“In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.”

“Life, what is it but a dream?”

“Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life… and fights to defend pride…”

“In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”

“It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.”

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

“There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death…”

“The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.

(on being 36 yrs old)”

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”

“Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm.”

“Grandma Redbird: Honey, you have to move past this.
Zoey: How Grandma?
Grandma Redbird: By living the life she'd be proud of you for living.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

“Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.”

“It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”

“I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs”

“Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.”

“The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.”

“Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.”

“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”

“You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.”

“Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”

“Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.”

“Each person's life – each lifeform,
in fact – represents a world, a
unique way in which the universe experiences itself.”

“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.”

“Life does not control you. What you believe about it, does.”

“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”

“You are my life, but you are not my purpose.”

“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”

“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.”

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

“Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”