Quotes about life

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“You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.”

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”

“Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.”

“For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.”

“Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.”

“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”

“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”

“We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.”

“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”

“Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"
They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.”

“All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.”

“How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.”

“Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but its always worth trying.”

“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”

“Life connects us, Benjamin, not artifice.”

“The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.”

“I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.”

“Our lovemaking was always risk and promise-for if he held my life in his hands when he lay with me, I held his soul, and knew it.”

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”

“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”

“In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.”

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

“I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee”

“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”

“A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.”

“It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life. So please embrace me now.”

“Life calls the tune, we dance.”

“No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.”

“An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.”

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”

“And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.”

“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.”

“Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.”

“In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.”

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Linus Pauling”

“He came for me. I couldn’t believe it.. Into a flying palace full of thousands of armed rakshasas in the middle of a magic jungle.. What was the God damn point of saving him only to watch him throw his life away?
Kate for Curran”

“When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”

“The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.”

“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”

“Life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it.”

“Life is better when we imagine it”

“Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.”

“How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized”

“life itself is not the miracle.
that pain should be so constant,
that's the miracle”

“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”

“If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.”

“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this?”

“Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.”

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

“Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.”

“Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.”

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

“Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.”

“You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but… If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.”

“It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.”

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”

“I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.”

“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”

“Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.”

“Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.”

“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”

“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us”

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”

“That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.”

“The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.”

“Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air.
He lived, though was not truly alive”

“The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.
But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.”

“Life, love, boys—it was all about balance.
~Anna Percy”

“Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was white as leprosy,
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.”

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

“When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

“The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.”

“life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.”

“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”

“It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.”

“The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.”

“Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.”

“The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.”

“But I am old now; my life is older. When I made the choice I made, I did not think it was forever. It is another thing to give up so young.”

“Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't… I don't think it's something anybody knows.”

“Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.”

“I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.”

“Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.”

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”

“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.”

“The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.”

“Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between!”

“…that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library…”

“Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.”

“No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.”

“The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.”

“Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!”

“And after a while… I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that… well, some people have to die.”

“This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.”

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.”

“[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.”

“Life must go on; I forget just why.”

“Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?”