Quotes about life

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“Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.”

“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem”

“But, Audrey, that's what life is. We're all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. That's life.”

“The energy of life entering and leaving your body flows evenly throughout the universe. With that current, the mind of the cosmos communicates with all things.”

“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.”

“My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?”

“Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.”

“Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels”

“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”

“I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.”

“My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.”

“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.”

“Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?”

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”

“I get it the whole idea of willingly going to hell for someone. Living there insane if you have to because you’d rather be insane with them than endure life without them.”

“That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.”

“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”

“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”

“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.”

“Is the life you seek to take worth the one you could one day create? (Savitar)”

“There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes, when your only hope of believing you’re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.”

“I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.”

“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”

“I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's just ephemeral, that you can just lie on the floor and bust a gut laughing at, then what's the point?”

“You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.”

“People always remember the worst day of their lifes. It becomes a part of them forever.”

“You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.”

“Similar situation? Like the one where you put me in fear for my life, then let go of that damned vine to heartlessly build my fear? MacRieve, I hope I enthralled you. Then you can rot wanting me to be yours.”

“And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: "I served in the United States Navy."”

“There are chapters in every life which are seldom read, and certainly not aloud.”

“Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.”

“The proper, wise balancing
of one's whole life may depend upon the
feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.”

“I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life… her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.”

“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”

“Stop and consider! life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.”

“His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.”

“The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.”

“We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.”

“Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.”

“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.”

“I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters”

“I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing.”

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”

“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.”

“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”

“I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.”

“She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life.
"Don't punish yourself," she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”

“Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”

“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.”

“She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.”

“Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.”

“Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.”

“Life is like a box of cookies.”

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.”

“I have never voted in my life… I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”

“Darkness will never take me… because I have you. Light of my life, Marissa. That's what you are."
-Butch and Marissa”

“He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”

“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.”

“History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.”

“Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.”

“Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature”

“Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.”

“I brought my lips down to hers, and it was like everything that had ever happened to me had simply been a warm-up for this moment, that this was where my life truly began.”

“Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.”

“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”

“Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”

“It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.”

“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.”

“Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".”

“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”

“The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.”

“Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.”

“I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”

“You can go through your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”

“Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”

“When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.”

“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

“I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. […]
Instead he kissed me.”

“She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.”

“Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere, angel
Come get up my baby.
Look at that sky, life's begun
Nights are warm and the days are young
Come get up my baby.”

“But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”

“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.”

“You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.”

“In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.”

“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”

“All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?”

“A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?”

“All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.”

“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”

“Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.”

“Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always.”

“My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air.”

“We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.”

“That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”

“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”