Quotes about life

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“But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.”

“Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.”

“It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.”

“Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”

“You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.”

“With his fantastic mane of multicoloured hair, Phury should have been in Hollywood's league with the ladies, but he'd stuck with his vow of celibacy. There was room for one and only one love in his life, and it had been slowly killing him for years.”

“My father always used
to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends,
then you've had a great life.”

“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”

“feels like some kind of ride but it's turning out just
to be life going absolutely perfectly”

“Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.”

“You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.”

“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.”

“There are no mistakes in life,
only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only
opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher”

“I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living”

“I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.”

“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.”

“It's better to dance than to march through life.”

“The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.”

“I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.”

“… if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.”

“I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.”

“Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other… I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.”

“Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!”

“In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.”

“It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need”

“Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.”

“It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.”

“The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.”

“Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.”

“In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.”

“And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.”

“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

“Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.”

“We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.”

“I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.”

“We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.”

“When life hands you a lemon, say "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?”

“Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)”

“If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.”

“This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I’ll destroy it. Love me, I’ll destroy you. I have never felt deserving of anything in my life.”

“There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth”

“I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.”

“Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.”

“I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience”

“You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.”

“I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.”

“Eventually you will see that the real cause of problem is not life itself. It's the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes the problems.”

“What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.”

“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”

“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life…”

“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”

“The life you save may very well be your own.”

“If you are good life is good.”

“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”

“A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.”

“He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.”

“I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it.

Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.”

“When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!”

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but… life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

“I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.”

“Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.”
Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere”

“It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.”

“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence.
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you always open petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously)her first rose or if it be your wish to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly
as the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries
rendering death and forever with each breathing”

“Funny how life messed with you.”

“I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.”

“Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a handkerchief.”

“Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”

“Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.'
Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.”

“Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.”

“Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.”

“Thy life’s journey lies along its own path, Ian,” she said, “and I cannot share thy journey—but I can walk beside thee. And I will.”

“So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.”

“Life is a movie; death is a photograph.”

“It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. To be in the window and watch people being sent to concentration camps or being attacked in the street and do nothing, that's being dead.”

“Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.”

“Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.”

“It will hurt. Because deep down, I'll know there was someone.. someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that?”

“Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.”

“Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.”

“Do you believe in fairy tales?"
"What… what kind of fairy tales?"
"The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.”

“We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award”

“Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."
As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.”

“The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have.”

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”

“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”

“The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.”

“The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.”

“Helloooo? I just made some changes in my life, and if I don't get back to you as soon as possible, then guess what? You were one of those changes.”

“You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.”

“For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.”

“Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.”

“I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.”

“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.”

“…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.”

“My life has been one great big joke,
A dance that's walked,
A song that's spoke,
I laugh so hard I almost choke,
When I think about myself.”

“Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.”