Quotes about life

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“It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.”

“Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you're not responsible for your actions.
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“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

“Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.”

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

“I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.”

“Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?'
'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.'
'But it's a dragon!”

“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”

“When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.”

“Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.”

“Life there was hard and it made people hard.”

“There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.”

“I guess life is full of maybes.”

“Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.”

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

“When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.”

“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”

“Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.”

“I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.”

“All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.”

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”

“(T)he world is broken up into pieces, and… it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.”

“The chorus of “Jack and Diane” is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.”

“Clary," he said. "You saved my life."
"I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire."
His lips twitched imperceptibly. "Okay," he said. "So maybe our problems aren't like other couples.”

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”

“Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.”

“Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.”

“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”

“True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.”

“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”

“If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.”

“There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.”

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.”

“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”

“Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega?
-No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.”

“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.”

“A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”

“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”

“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”

“I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”

“I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.”

“A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.”

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”

“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.”

“I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”

“What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.”

“he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.”

“You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work.”

“Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.”

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies”

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

“Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.”

“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”

“I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.”

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more…”

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

“Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense.”

“Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”

“This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive”

“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”

“One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves”

“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”

“She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?”

“Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.”

“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”

“Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".”

“These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.”

“Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.”

“It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”

“And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.”

“Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”

“Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly
life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are
strong enough to lead it!”

“I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.”

“The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.”

“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”

“All little creatures are beautiful… every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.”

“Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.”

“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”

“Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.”

“I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.”

“Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.”

“But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.”

“Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.”

“They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.”

“Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn”

“But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.”

“The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.”

“The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.”

“The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.”

“Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.”

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

“There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.”

“I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.”

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”