Quotes about life

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“Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy”

“I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.”

“The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.”

“While there's life, there's hope.”

“She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.”

“… one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”

“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”

“The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.”

“You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.”

“Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.”

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome.”

“Then why haven’t you killed yourself? (Astrid)
Why should I? The only enjoyment I have in my life is knowing I piss off everyone around me. If I were dead, it would make them all happy. God forbid I should ever do that. (Zarek)”

“Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.”

“I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life. Forcing people to give it to you, or making them want to give it to you.”

“I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.

+ Then you shouldn't be a writer.”

“That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”

“They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice… That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”

“After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.”

“You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.”

“Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

“One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.”

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”

“I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.”

“Percy hated tests. Since he'd lost his memory, his whole life was one big fill-in-the-blank. He was _____, from _____. He felt like _____, and if the monsters caught him, he'd be _____.”

“Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.”

“Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.”

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”

“… as long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers.”

“Your shadow stealthily
leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle
that sews together my footsteps.
Your light pliantly
strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt
that severs the source of my life.
-Soifon”

“Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.”

“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

“Life is only lived full-time by women with children.”

“Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something more, and that Something More is what life is really all about.”

“For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.”

“There is nothing perfect. There is only life.”

“Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.”

“there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”

“We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.”

“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.”

“In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.”

“Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.”

“Just remember… life without me would be even more unbearable.”

“Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just
something we haul into the grave.”

“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.”

“There are three constants in life… Change, Choice and Principles.”

“I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.”

“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

“You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead.”

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~”

“Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?”

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

“Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.”

“Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.”

“My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.”

“And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.”

“When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.”

“I don't expect you to understand anything I'm telling you. But I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.”

“It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life.”

“I'm not sure there's such thing a thing as a normal life.”

“Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.”

“One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.”

“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”

“all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.”

“Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again”

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”

“God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life…”

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.”

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

“… So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.”

“As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.”

“If you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.”

“Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.”

“My life is perfect even when it's not.”

“I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.”

“They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”

“And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.”

“I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable… I suppose I'm larger than life.”

“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”

“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”

“… there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.”

“None of this is fair. It isn't fair that part of your life was ripped from you. It's not fair that you were ripped away from me. I'm so angry Simon.”

“He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.”

“There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.”

“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

“I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.”

“The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.”

“Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.”

“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”

“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”

“You have to remember… that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.”

“Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly”

“it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.”

“Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.”