Life Quotes

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.

~ Virginia Woolf

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

~ Mervyn Peake

Tis to create, and in creating live        A being more intense, that we endow        With form our fancy, gaining as we give        The life we image, even as I do now.        What am I? Nothing: but not so art thou,        Soul of my thought! with whom I traverse earth,        Invisible but gazing, as I glow        Mix'd with thy spirit, blended with thy birth,And feeling still with thee in my crush'd feelings' dearth.

~ George Gordon Byron

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

~ Terence Mckenna

Everything in your mental life proceeds in proper neurological order. If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.

~ Abhijit Naskar

At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The most beautiful word in the dictionary is IMAGINATION.

~ Auliq Ice

Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

~ Sigmund Freud

Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.

~ Ray Bradbury

You have only one life. So, live it happy with whatever conditions you have. Don't let others destroy your imagination and the world you are living in, and don't even listen to what they have to say about you. When you give more weight to other's opinions than your own thoughts, you will end up living their unattainable life instead of yours..

~ Not A Book

Three things to help keep your brain cells awake and alert ... drink plenty of clean water, get plenty of deep sleep, and let your imagination soar to places it's never dared venture.

~ Toni Sorenson

New exit, new entry!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wonder if life is a fairy tale!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Words are life. We are our words. Choose your words carefully.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.

~ W.p. Kinsella

I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.

~ Alice Hoffman

What you desire is what you attract to yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Inception. Invention. Innovation.

~ Imani Nettles

We call this a sweet life, to have your impact solutes dissolved in the life of people giving them a solution to their life problems... You can imagine how tasty that could be!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Art is a mirror of time, it must reflect a moment.

~ Unarine Ramaru

A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.

~ Alice Mcdermott

There was a time when that kind of thing looked like the kingdom of heaven, but somewhere along the line it had lost its glow. Maybe that was just the cost of growing up. And maybe the cost of growing up was too high.

~ James P. Blaylock

Sketch what you got, it will determine what you will be.

~ Sakin Maharjan

Life for both sexes--and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. By feeling that one has some innate superiority-- it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney-- for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination-- over other people.

~ Virginia Woolf

A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination.

~ Debasish Mridha

A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

~ Orrin Woodward

Write it down and it will come alive.

~ Efrat Israeli

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

~ Frida Kahlo

He ached for creation. For life to somehow rise from the drawings in his sketching book. For his own energy, his own impressions to swirl and spin on a canvas. For a dream city he had tacked above his bed.

~ C.s. Richardson

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

~ Criss Jami

We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.

~ James C. Emlund

Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work—and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification.

~ Donald J. Cram

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

~ Yukio Mishima

Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.

~ Juhani Peltonen

I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.

~ Christy Hall