Life Quotes

It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reality of life. It was like expecting to be able to write a symphony because you had once read a handbook of composition.

~ Julian Barnes

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small).

~ Julio Cortázar

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

~ Stanisław Lem

Sitting by the windowI was thinkingWhat changed so fastlyMe or the city...

~ Irfa Rahat

All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances are infinitely more bearable than the disturbing reality of mundane work-to-live-then-die-bored life.

~ Moonshine Noire

Being a visionary is a blessing and a curse, you're blessed to see things other people are not able to see but you are cursed to sit in it alone

~ David Banner

What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore. Those stories you heard? About going to a wonderful place called 'heaven' where there is no pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness? Also total bullshit. Just like all that God stuff. There's no evidence of a heaven and there never was. We made that up too. Wishful thinking. So now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you're going to die someday and disappear forever.Sorry.

~ Ernest Cline

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real. And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate them from ourselves to join them to it; and we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness of our being, not to be satisfied with the one without the other, and to renounce the one for the other! For he would be infamous who would not die to preserve his honour.

~ Blaise Pascal

I live by four simple words. Love. Being. Here. Now.

~ Todd Crawshaw

Life is all about Expectations verses Reality, be in reality.

~ Bharath Mamidoju

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.

~ Clarice Lispector

Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.

~ Terry Pratchett

Reality—there’s nothing but horror in that.

~ A.l. Kennedy

Life is a dream. I awake it is a reality.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a reality.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is more important than knowledge”, with due respect to Mr. Einstein, I beg to differ! “Imagination is not possible without knowledge.

~ I Are

It doesn't matter which line you walk, it's gray just like any other

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

Even if you are perfect the World isn't.

~ Paul Kalanithi

If you're thinking about it, then stop. Because it could be the reason you're having a tough day.

~ Echo Bliss

when I was a kid I use to put a puzzle together over and over until I got really good at it so one day I turned all the pieces upside down and built it, then I understood the true nature of the puzzle

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Tyler shrugs. It's a big world, Jo. Who am I to say what is and isn't possible?

~ Brandy Nacole

Life is meant for the living but fit for the dead.

~ Isabella Poretsis

We think that we are living when we walk upon the earth but the very moment we “die” there, we wake up here! This life on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge is the real one. We find that our life on earth was just a dream, a dream designed to lead us further and further into love. True love grows and then cannot be destroyed. It grows and grows until it is stronger than death.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Life was complicated, I thought. Not just the living but dealing with the realities and the instinct for order that other people have, that I didn't always grasp.

~ Peter Akinti

Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t.

~ Lev Grossman

It's easy to dislike the truth for it is ugly and harsh to the naked eye.

~ Antonio Kowatsch

When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing living. (Another empty room)

~ Erik Pevernagie

True Martial Arts is universal, simple and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Every sin is the result of a colaboration

~ Stephen Crane

Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you’re so weird you should be in movies.;'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, 'and you, baby, should be in real life.' The insect paused for a moment

~ Douglas Adams

The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers.

~ Moonshine Noire

...few truly understood how disheartening it was to be cut off from worlds so strange and distant they remained to us fantasies rather than distant realities, too surreal and foreign to be touched. Their minds were fixated on what they knew to be real, unable to create the atmospheres of the nebulous realms that lay just beyond our reach, just beyond the dimming horizon, our celestial limits.

~ Moonshine Noire

Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There were no witnesses to what was about to happen. 'Happen' didn't yet exist. Reality was timeless. Space also didn't exist. The distance between two points was immeasurable. The points themselves could be anywhere, hovering and bouncing. Infinity tangled into itself. There was no here and now. Only Being.

~ Marcelo Gleiser

Concerning this a man once said:Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parablesyou yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.Another said: I bet that is also a parable.The first said: You have won.The second said: But unfortunately only in parable.The first said: No, in reality; in parable you have lost.

~ Franz Kafka

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I've always felt like the Katherines dump me right when they start to see what I look like from the inside.

~ John Green

I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.

~ John Green

The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.

~ John Green

...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.

~ Criss Jami

It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.

~ Mark Nepo