Quotes about life

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“And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks”

“The best things in life are silly.”

“Life happened because I turned the pages.”

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?”

“An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.”

“Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.”

“Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.”

“Story of my life.”

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”

“Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”

“Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”

“[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.”

“Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.”

“The strenuous life tastes better”

“We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.”

“Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.”

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.”

“Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.”

“If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.”

“Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”

“The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.”

“She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.”

“I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”

“I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.”

“I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework… procrastinating and negotiation.”

“but our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of Him.”

“A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.”

“When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be. I love you, Maddie, and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to say it to you again.”

“True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life”

“Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.”

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?”

“I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.”

“My dad always used to say that with everything in life, there’s a game-changing moment. The one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time.”

“The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.”

“Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet”

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”

“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”

“Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.”

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.”

“He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.”

“If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
Then my life
Will be yours”

“We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?”

“… no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love every day for the rest of my life.”

“Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm, all along, out along, down along lea. A laugh is a great natural stimulator, a pushful entry into life; and once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”

“Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.”

“Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.”

“Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.”

“Potential has a shelf life.”

“If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.”
“The Codes?”
“No. The Way of Kings.”
“That storming book.”

“Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.”

“Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.”

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”

“Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
and of every moment of your life”

“Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning.”

“Everything in life is just for a while.”

“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”

“The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field”

“All his life he had wanted to be known by just one person. That’s what love was, he decided. Love was being known.”

“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

“it's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for problems in your life when you are saying, "I am responsible”

“What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.”

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“Without literature, life is hell.”

“I have no brakes on… analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.”

“No one survives life.”

“So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.”

“An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.”

“Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.”

“Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.”

“Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”

“If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.”

“To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.”

“As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.”

“The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.”

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”

“I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.”

“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state… Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”

“I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.”

“Give me my powers back, Artemis, or I’ll take your daughter’s life. (Sin)
Damn boy, you have an unholy gift for pissing off people. Why don’t you tell her that dress makes her look fat while you’re at it? (Kat)”

“There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”

“It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.”

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

“You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.”

“Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”

“You get to define the terms of your life.”

“Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny –
Did you ever try buying them without money.”

“What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,
Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?
Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you—
It takes life to love Life.”

“Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.”

“Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”

“Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye”

“Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.”

“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

“I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.”

“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”