Life Quotes

People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

~ Patrick Ness

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well.

~ Vicktor Alexander

But what are loyalty and caring really worth?To me? Everything.

~ Richelle Mead

WE two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,threatening,Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, onthe turf or the sea-beach dancing,Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feeblenesschasing,Fulfilling our foray.

~ Walt Whitman

When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave

~ Kelly Cutrone

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

~ Kristin Cashore

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

~ Ray Bradbury

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

~ Steve Jobs

The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

~ Susan Gordon Lydon

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

~ Tom Bodett

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

~ Lady Gaga

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

~ Wendy Wasserstein

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

~ Quentin Crisp

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

~ Harold S. Kushner

There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.

~ Elizabeth Scott

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

~ Joe Abercrombie

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

~ Charles De Lint

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.

~ David Levithan

The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.

~ Lisa Kleypas

I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.

~ Beverly Donofrio

Excellence/Perfection is not a destination, it is a continuous journey that never ends.

~ Brian Tracy

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice

~ Gary L. Francione

You will be fine,' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

~ Erin Morgenstern

Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling and a cell.

~ V.e. Schwab

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Life’s too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don’t care.

~ Unknown

That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

~ Robyn Schneider

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

~ Philippa Gregory

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...

~ Michel Houellebecq

Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

~ Jim Butcher

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

~ Hugo Claus

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

~ Nick Hornby

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

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

~ Natalie Babbitt