Quotes about life

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“They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.”

“Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.”

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.”

“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”

“gravity, n.

I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.”

“Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.”

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

“But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.”

“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

“If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.”

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

“Without Obsession, Life Is Nothing”

“Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.”

“Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or… or what”

“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”

“I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.”

“Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.”

“If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.”

“One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.”

“I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.”

“the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!”

“Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.”

“Happily ever after?"
"If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.”

“And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?”

“We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”

“The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.”

“I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.”

“Simon’s love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him.
Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.”

“Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.”

“It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.”

“Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.”

“For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.”

“I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.”

“Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.”

“The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.”

“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”

“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.”

“A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.”

“I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory.”

“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”

“The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.”

“You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.”

“If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.”

“When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.”

“To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.”

“Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.”

“The flames surround me, and I feel myself slipping further from life, thinning to only the faintest shiver in the air. I yearn for the darkness and silence of the underworld, where I can rest.”

“Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.”

“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”

“The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that.

It has to do with cutting the right deal.”

“Jericho."
"Mac."
"Thank you for saving my life. Again.”

“Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?”

“Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.”

“We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.”

“Anything a person chases in life runs away.”

“Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.”

“Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.”

“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.”

“From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.”

“But I want to feel like life matters. I
had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.”

“And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.”

“I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.”

“Think pink. A better way of life.”

“Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.”

“Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!”

“No one gets to tell you what your life means!”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

“I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.”

“Life likes to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go!”

“He was so different from her, yet in his presence she felt the possibility of another kind of life, a life she had never imagined could be hers. A life without the rigid limitations others had always set for her.”

“Tea… is a religion of the art of life.”

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”

“We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”

“I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.”

“what you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, would this b the way you'd want to have spent it?”

“Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.”

“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”

“Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”

“I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.”

“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

“When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.”

“I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”

“He saved your life,” Clary pointed out.
“Details,” said Simon dismissively.”

“Life is so unfair.”

“I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.”

“A disciple… can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”

“And you’ll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living. I guarantee it.”

“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”

“When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"”

“I may be the wrong person for my life.”

“Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.

Photographs are.”

“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”

“To be, in a word, unborable…. It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”