Quotes about life

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“It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.”

“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”

“What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?”

“Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.”

“And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness…”

“Remember, purpose is about giving… All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others.”

“They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.”

“Poor you, you have two cute girls vying for your love. Your life is hard.”

“The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.”

“Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight!”

“Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.”

“I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find… I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.”

“But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.”

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

“I mean she's Cleopatra… shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different…"
"Variety is the spice of life"
"And from a thousand miles apart"
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder”

“If life gives you lemons lets be honest you probably just found lemons”

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

“Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sorrow.”

“The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.”

“To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.”

“Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.”

“Oh if life were made of moments
Even now and then a bad one--!
But if life were only moments,
Then you'd never know you had one.”

“What, what am I to do with all of this life?”

“Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.”

“For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest WHAT IF.”

“There's more to life then living, so hold on.”

“those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”

“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.”

“Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.”

“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”

“How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.”

“There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.”

“Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?”

“Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.”

“Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.”

“Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.”

“I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.”

“When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.”

“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”

“You weaseled your way into my life, Simon Lewis, and I don’t know how or why or even when but it happened, and I kind of hate it but I can’t change it, and here it is”

“The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.”

“Life turns on a dime.”

“Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it”

“You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. […] Your life is not disposable.”

“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”

“Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?”

“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”

“There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”

“If it can be verified, we don't need faith… Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

“She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her.”

“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”

“All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.”

“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”

“Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.”

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”

“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”

“Goddamn it. Wait for me, Eva. I waited my whole life for you.”

“Knowledge is Life with wings”

“A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.”

“People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.”

“Susannah continued. "If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan.”

“I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.”

“You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.”

“I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”

“You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.”

“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.”

“Ask people for help. You’ll be all right. Don’t worry. It’s a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun…”

“If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.”

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

“So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”

“How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!”

“He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock.
The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.”

“It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.”

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving…”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

“I believe people ought to mate for life… like pigeons or Catholics.”

“I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and,
sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every
painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia.”

“Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.”

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”

“My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”

“Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned….”

“Life before toilet paper was not worth living.”

“Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.”

“There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.”

“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”

“A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.”

“If it's over--if it's really over--then don't let it screw up the rest of your life.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.”

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”

“She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.”

“I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.”

“… all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.”

“Life is like a box of chocolates.”

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

“Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.”

“[…] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.”

“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”