Life Quotes

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

~ Quentin Tarantino

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

~ Conan O'brien

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

~ Markus Zusak

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

~ Mary Hoffman

Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.

~ Roy T. Bennett

We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.

~ R.a. Salvatore

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?

~ Tim Burton

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! Life flies,One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

~ Omar Khayyám

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

~ C.s. Lewis

Letting him goThere is a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice. Like the pained silence felt in the lost song of a mermaid, or the bent and broken feet of a dancing ballerina. It is in every considered step I am taking in the opposite direction of you.

~ Lang Leav

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

~ E.m. Forster

The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.

~ Anonymous

How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.

~ Gena Showalter

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

~ Robin S. Sharma

Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

After a long, labored sigh, I said, “She was really happy when I got there. I’m pretty sure she was suicidal when I left.”“You do have that effect on people.

~ Darynda Jones

The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.

~ Susane Colasanti

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making

~ Reba Mcentire

The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.

~ Jeff Foxworthy

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

~ Philip Pullman

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.

~ Mary Daly

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

~ Steve Maraboli

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

~ Jimmy Buffett

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

~ James Dashner

We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.

~ Tonya Hurley

You didn't just cheat on me, you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart, you broke our future.

~ Steve Maraboli

There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

~ Robyn Schneider

I had a dream about you last night... you were a giant slinky and I watched you fall down the stairs.

~ Amy Sommers

Those who don't jump will never fly.

~ Leena Ahmad Almashat

I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead

~ Michael Summers

Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.

~ Roy T. Bennett

What am I dying for?

~ Stephenie Meyer

Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.

~ Roy T. Bennett

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

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.

~ D.h. Lawrence

In a well-ordered universe...

~ Morgan Matson