Quotes about life

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“I didn't know how… deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.”

“Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?”

“Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it…”

“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”

“When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.”

“Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.”

“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

“Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.”

“It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”

“Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.”

“If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?”

“Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.”

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”

“It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.”

“Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.”

“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”

“What do you mean, Araluen? Death?"
Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.”

“Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…”

“She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.”

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”

“We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.”

“That's life. Things don't always work out.”

“It frightens me the awful truth of how sweet life can be.”

“I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.”

“Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.”

“When I was seventeen, my life changed forever…”

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.”

“It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.”

“life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.”

“No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake”

“A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.”

“Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.”

“He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.”

“The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don't really know what it's about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decided it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt.”

“Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life.
I walked away.”

“When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”

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

“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”

“Life is classified. There is always so much that goes unsaid.”

“That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.”

“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”

“… I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.”

“Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.”

“It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
Ever since sentences started to circulate in brains devoted to reflection, an effort at total identification has been made, because with the aid of a copula each sentence ties one thing to another; all things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.
But the copula of terms is no less irritating than the copulation of bodies. And when I scream I AM THE SUN an integral erection results, because the verb to be is the vehicle of amorous frenzy.
Everyone is aware that life is parodic and that it lacks an interpretation. Thus lead is the parody of gold. Air is the parody of water. The brain is the parody of the equator. Coitus is the parody of crime.”

“She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.”

“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”

“I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”

“Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.”

“The average american spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green. six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on.”

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

“It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken”

“Nice to know I have that effect on boys. I mean, Christopher doesn't even know I exist, and Brandon Stark practically throws up when he sees me. Having my brain transplated into a supermodel's body was doing wonders for my love life.”

“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”

“My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

“I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here I was, talking to the dead. I finished my first drink. The second was ready.”

“I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”

“Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.”

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.”

“Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.”

“Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.”

“Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases”

“People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?”

“there are some things in life a person just cant know”

“When life gives you lemons…. they could really be oranges.”

“Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.”

“Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.”

“Life did not stop, and one had to live.”

“They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.”

“Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.”

“Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.”

“Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.”

“life is too short for fake butter or fake people.”

“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.”

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”

“Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.”

“Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”

“But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.”

“Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.”

“You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.”

“I want some time without you organic life forms.”

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”

“If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”

“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”

“When by my solitary hearth I sit,
When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head.”

“But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.”

“All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.”

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

“Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were
all the same, that were do-overs?”

“Life is compost.”

“Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.”

“Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?”

“I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.”

“As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.”

“There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.”

“He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.”

“Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.”