Life Quotes

...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.I’m talking about freedom, Fogg. A sense of despair that becomes so great, so crushing, so catastrophic, that you have no choice but to be liberated by it. That’s the only choice, or else you crawl into a corner and die.

~ Paul Auster

But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.

~ Emily Maguire

There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.

~ Frank Warren

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

~ Michel Houellebecq

I had a dream about you last night... you kept meowing at people and licking yourself it was not unlike you normally.

~ Nicole Mckay

The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.

~ Jojo Moyes

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??

~ Jim Morrison

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Life itself is the proper binge.

~ Julia Child

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

~ Helen Keller

Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing largerThan your own small heartOr greater than a star;Tame wild disappointmentWith caress unmoved and coldMake of it a parkaFor your soul.Discover the reason whySo tiny human midgetExists at allSo scared unwiseBut expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.

~ Alice Walker

when we were kidslaying around the lawnon ourbellieswe often talkedabouthowwe'd like todieandwe allagreed on thesamething,we'd alllike to diefucking(althoughnone of ushaddone anyfucking)and nowthatwe are hardlykidsany longerwe think moreabouthownot todieandalthoughwe'rereadymost ofuswouldprefer todo italoneunder thesheetsnowthatmost ofushave fuckedour livesaway.

~ Charles Bukowski

Stop giving your life away to other people.

~ Steve Maraboli

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.

~ Thomas Aquinas

My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy.

~ Tim Burton

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

~ John Green

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.

~ Kiera Cass

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

~ Mitsugi Saotome

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

~ Tom Stoppard

If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence.

~ Toba Beta

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

~ Jim Rohn

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

~ A.c. Grayling

Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.

~ Voltaire

Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

~ Steve Maraboli

We are the sum of all people we have ever met, you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

~ Dirk Wittenborn

Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.

~ Haruki Murakami

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

~ William Faulkner

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

~ Criss Jami

Love doesn't make the world go 'round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

~ Joelle Charbonneau

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which you arewithout passionate loveis the most wasted day of your life.

~ Omar Khayyám

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

~ Maya Angelou

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter

~ Diane Setterfield

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.

~ Douglas Coupland

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

~ Jeanette Winterson

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

~ Charles Bukowski