Quotes about life

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“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

“Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.”

“The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life.”

“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”

“Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.”

“I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?”

“Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.”

“I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.”

“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”

“I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.”

“His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.”

“I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there”

“Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.”

“I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.”

“Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in
one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies”

“Happiest day of my life when my dad made him human. (Devyn)
Happy for you, bonebag…It cost me my girlfriend. (Vik)
It was a lamp, Vik, not a girlfriend. (Devyn)
I really loved that lamp. She lit up my entire world. (Vik)”

“If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?”

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.”

“… we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.”

“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.”

“And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.”

“It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I don't see how it's going to do me much good to believe that the world is over and this is just an epilogue.”

“What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”

“And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.”

“Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together.”

“I wish you all a long and happy life”

“Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.”

“Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.”

“These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.”

“I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.”

“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”

“Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.”

“Life’s like that. As we grow and change, some things we’ve experienced before take on new meaning. It’ll happen for the rest of your life.”

“Kid. You just made the last mistake of your life.'
'God,' I said. 'I.”

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”

“A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”

“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”

“Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.”

“Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.”

“Day One of my life was the day I met you.”

“I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!”

“The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.”

“I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.”

“The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”

“It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.”

“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.”

“Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.”

“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”

“Empty Spaces:
After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.”

“There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”

“All life battles teach us something, even those we lose”

“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”

“People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world.
What the hell, maybe they can.”

“The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.”

“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”

“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”

“Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.”

“Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.”

“Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.”

“Try to say nothing negative about anybody.
a) for three days
b) for forty-five days
c) for three months

See what happens to your life.”

“A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.”

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”

“There´s no way to protect yourself against heartbreak. That's just a part of life.”

“You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.”

“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.”

“Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life."
"How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?"
Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.”

“I hate to complain… No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.”

“True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.”

“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”

“I've been a police officer for twenty years now and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing is life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.”

“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.”

“I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.”

“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”

“Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat
My dress is 1922…
My life is all like that.”

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”

“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.”

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”

“I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.”

“I want more from life than that and I have more to give.”

“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

“We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!”

“It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”

“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”

“Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?"

I didn't say anything.”

“Dan: You've ruined my life.
Anna: You'll get over it.”

“All actual life is encounter.”

“Life's metaphors are God's instructions.”

“The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.”

“There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.”

“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. To become oblivious in dreams was impossible now, at least till night-time; it was impossible to return to that music sung by carafe-women; and so one had to become oblivious in the dreams of life.”

“One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.”

“Love and life belongs to great risk.”

“There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.”

“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.”

“Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”