Life Quotes

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

~ Confucius

People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed

~ Martina Cole

On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk?He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see is a dark coat and the shoes striking the puddles.And yet this person is the hero of his own life story.He is the love of someone’s life.And what he can do may change the

~ Vera Nazarian

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day…

~ James A. Murphy

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

~ Jane Austen

Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.

~ Suzy Kassem

Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.

~ Francesca Marciano

I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”) and as soon as “exceptional” begins to mean anything to anyone they’ll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn’t mean anything to anybody. “Exceptional” refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I’ve been exceptional.

~ Daniel Keyes

Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.

~ Meg Medina

You arrange your life based on what everyone thinks of you or what you think they think of you,whoever everyone is...

~ Esther Verhoef

I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

~ Charles Bukowski

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

~ Osamu Dazai

Our forefathers were heroes. But why were they heroes? Because they fought for democracy. They fought for the life and liberty of the Filipino people. They fought for our independence, our freedom. They fought against tyranny, totalitarianism, and dictatorship. They fought for us and that is something we must be grateful for.

~ Yanan Melo

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

~ Emma Donoghue

People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.

~ Haruki Murakami

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

~ Thomas M. Disch

She dances a little jig. This would make one hell of a TV show, huh? Yeah. But no one would believe it. I should let it go. But it's like the hole, like the door, and I have to know. Or at least, I have to ask. Hey, Dulcie, was any of that real? She finishes her dance and the wings come to rest. Who's to say what's real or not? Yeah, but--my barometer on reality, not so good since I started going crazy. Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

~ Libba Bray

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore.

~ Kiran Desai

What a strange creature is a laughing fool,As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth.

~ John Webster

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

~ David Gemmell

I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us

~ Charles Bukowski

Love is large, and so forms the heart that embraces it fully.

~ Leeann Taylor

It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.

~ Jan Karon

What we earn in life? People heart? Enemies? Just think, why we live this world? Be pleasant, Be honest, Be peaceful.

~ Samdoss

Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?

~ Haruki Murakami

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.

~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

~ Jeannette Walls

Good things could happen to not so bad people.

~ Mike Gayle

People are good because they are good in hiding their bad.

~ Ratish Edwards

You don’t have to feel disappointed with yourself for not being able to alleviate the suffering of others. There are some things that are just beyond us. But what lies within our reach is to empathize, to love, to try very hard to be a good companion, a good listener and above all a good human being. That’s what we can do and that is what we must do. Sincerely love those who need us and show genuine care to them. Commit yourself a hundred percent to your relationship- give it all that you have. If you can do this you have done enough and that should give you a sense of satisfaction.

~ Latika Teotia

People try to get off the hook by giving excuses. Actually the reason why they are doing that is to try and get rid of the guilt which invariably accompanies such acts. They are trying to lessen their burden by passing on the responsibility on to others. They mix up excuse with reason. An excuse is an excuse and most certainly not a reason.. Be careful while accepting excuses because you may unwittingly take on responsibilities which were not yours in the first place.There’s another type of excuse- the one you give to yourself. You don’t want to get up early in the morning, or you don’t feel like exercising, or you don’t want to mow the lawn and so on, therefore you will try and justify your action on the pretext that you slept late or couldn’t sleep properly or you have some imaginary ailment or the sky is overcast etc. Actually you are trying to get rid of that guilty feeling of not doing what you ought to have done.

~ Latika Teotia

Loyalty begins with your own self. Be loyal to yourself, to your feelings, desires and demands of your soul. Start by following a small dictum- “Do unto others what you wish to be done by (others to you)” and you will realize how clearly you can see and how simple your life becomes. It’s a double edged weapon, you will set standards for your behavior with others and will expect no less from them either; it will also make you reasonable as well as realistic because you won’t expect the moon from others while you are not ready to do even half as much. In the past you may have bent backwards to please others, moulded yourself to suit their needs because you were too meek to stand up for your own self. You never thought of self love, your desire to grow and attain self fulfillment. Not anymore. You must be assertive, be firm and above all be loyal to yourself. If it doesn’t suit others, then so be it. They were never meant to be your fellow travelers, they were parasites who only wanted to use you, and having done that discard you when you had served their purpose. There was no ‘mutuality’ about such relationship. Be loyal to yourself and to others who are on the same wave length as you.

~ Latika Teotia

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

It's possible that Knight believed he was one of the few sane people left. He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.

~ Michael Finkel

A lot of bad things happen around me, some people think bad, some say bad, some do bad and some wish bad. And I am scared all the time not because of them but for the fact that some day I will one of them. Being good is tough but staying good is tougher.

~ Ratish Edwards

People come and go, some stay for a while some leave soon. But when they go they take away the memories, promises, dreams and a part of my life.

~ Ratish Edwards

People are like the waves, all similar, none the same

~ Benny Bellamacina

To be relevant, you must seek knowledge.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I have always loved being behind the camera. I love how it sets you apart in a crowd, so that you can float at the edges, pausing only occasionally to capture a moment.In its own way it’s easier than writing. As a writer, I have to know people, to talk to them, to barge into silences with a dozen of those little lighthearted quips that lead up to a conversation. And even then, they’re guarded around you. Nobody wants their drunken conversation written down somewhere.Being a photographer is different. People come to you. They smile. They flirt. They make sure you see only their best side. Nobody wants to upset the camera.

~ Yudhanjaya Wijeratne