Life Quotes

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

~ Brené Brown

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

~ Carson Mccullers

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

~ Gary L. Francione

We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.

~ John Eldredge

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

~ Deepak Chopra

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

~ Haruki Murakami

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

~ Oscar Wilde

There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.

~ Virginia Woolf

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

~ Amy Poehler

But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way. In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognize such moments in retrospect. Naturally, when one looks back to such instances today, they may indeed take the appearance of being crucial, precious moments in one's life; but of course, at the time, this was not the impression one had. Rather, it was as though one had available a never-ending number of days, months, years in which to sort out the vagaries of one's relationship with Miss Kenton; an infinite number of further opportunities in which to remedy the effect of this or that misunderstanding. There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

~ Antonio Machado

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

~ Ming-Dao Deng

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

~ Robert Jordan

Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it.

~ Alysha Speer

It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.

~ Andre Agassi

Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn’t make you a weak person. It’s hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it’s a maybe. A ‘maybe someday things won’t always be this shit.’ And that ‘maybe’ immediately makes the shittiness better.

~ Cecelia Ahern

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

~ Jodi Picoult

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

~ Amit Ray

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

~ Santosh Kalwar

So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break

~ Billy Joel

Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.

~ Margaret Mitchell

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

~ Joe L. Wheeler

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.

~ P.c. Cast

there isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails.

~ Raymond Carver

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

~ Rob Sheffield

Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn

~ Gregory David Roberts

Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

~ Mary Harris Jones

When mice run, cats give chase.

~ Rachel Vincent

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

~ William S. Burroughs

But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.

~ Iain Thomas

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

~ Carl Sagan

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.

~ Slavoj Žižek