Quotes about life

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“sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”

“Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.”

“She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.”

“Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.”

“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”

“The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.”

“It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.”

“Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.”

“My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation,
As my two eyes make one in sight.”

“I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.”

“… and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”

“I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.”

“And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.”

“In spite of everything life is not without hope.”

“Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

“Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with”

“God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.”

“I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.”

“Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.”

“High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life—those people are liars… Who wants the best years of their life to be in high school? High school is something everybody should be ready to lose.”

“That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality”

“When life gives you lemons… choke on them and die… you stupid lemon eater.”

“Some things in life are worth waiting for.”

“I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.”

“I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.”

“There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.”

“… one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.”

“Don't you want the guy who'll forget about all the other things in his life before he forgets about you?”

“Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.”

“I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift."
Gross," said Clary. "Must you?"
Simon grinned. "I must.”

“It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.”

“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”

“I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy”

“The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.”

“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.”

“For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.”

“Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.”

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…”

“You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.”

“What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”

“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”

“Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.”

“No one escapes from life alive.”

“The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.”

“Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything… I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?”

“…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.”

“If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.”

“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”

“Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.”

“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

“In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.”

“I’m a girl. Every girl pretends she’s a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. And I like the idea of ‘happily ever after.”

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

“You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.”

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

“The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory”

“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”

“Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure.

~Sir Bannor”

“Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life.”

“You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated”

“Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.”

“Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.”

“When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.”

“To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.”

“I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.”

“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”

“Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life."

She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.”

“If your life is worth thinking about, it is worth writing about.”

“If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.”

“The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste.”

“How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?”

“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”

“You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get his hopes up, then laugh and skip away?”

“What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.”

“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”

“God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.”

“And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed,
Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?-
And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?”

“Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.”

“You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.”

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is ‘Thank you,’ it will be enough.” —Meister Eckhart”

“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”

“Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.”

“The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”

“Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”

“True life lies in laughter, love and work.”

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”

“It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.”

“Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.”

“If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.”

“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.”

“I surrendered my beliefs
and found myself at the tree of life
injecting my story into the veins of leaves
only to find that stories like forests
are subject to seasons”

“My eyes were glued on life
and they were full of tears.”

“This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.”

“She has the gift of accepting her life.”