Life Quotes

It's the time of our lives; let's make mistakes, not care. Let's make memories.

~ Sara Rak

If you can remember me, I will be with you Today, Tomorrow and always.

~ #Name?

• Memories are just a spark from the fire that you have in your heart from the love you have for the person you shared them with. A flash of warmth that comes with the knowledge that at that very moment life is perfect, a glimmer of hope that this happiness will last forever.

~ Stephen Skolnik

One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Try to remember some details. For the worldis filled with people who were torn from their sleepwith no one to mend the tear,and unlike wild beasts they liveeach in his lonely hiding place and they dietogether on battlefieldsand in hospitals.And the earth will swallow all of them,good and evil together, like the followers of Korah,all of them in their rebellion against death,their mouths open till the last moment,praising and cursing in a singlehowl. Try, tryto remember some details.

~ Yehuda Amichai

Even post true death memories carried on the waves of universal energy will defy the faux perception of finality.

~ Truth Devour

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

~ Lois Lowry

Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.

~ Steve Maraboli

Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.

~ Ann-Marie Macdonald

I don't know why they call it life, it's just a moment with memories.

~ Tibor Fischer

Wounds heal. Scars fade. Awful memories can be overwritten with better ones if given the chance. The little imperfections of our psyches become overshadowed by the people whose love we cherish because they cherish us despite our faults; physical, emotional, spiritual, or otherwise. This thing we call the human condition with all its bittersweet blind corners and senseless humor evolves from within ourselves and not because of some pre-ordained reverie we desire to cast in the constellations.All in all it is what makes life worth living.

~ August Clearwing

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

~ Joshua Foer

Certain moments in my life are imprinted in me memory.They're easy to recall with perfect clarity, whether I want to remember them or not. Any small thing can trigger them: a phrase, a smell, a thought. It brings everything back like I'm reliving that moment, a brief scene in the movie of my life, complete with how horrible I felt at the time. And I usually felt horrible in those moments that I want to forget that stick around.

~ Elizabeth Norris

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic.

~ Richard Ford

Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed.

~ Robert Macfarlane

It's summer and time for wandering...

~ Kellie Elmore

Some part of me remembers what snow is, but this is the first time my new mind has seen it. It softens the crumbled sidewalks and turns rusty rooftops white. It’s beautiful. It crunches under my feet as I move toward the house, longing to understand.

~ Isaac Marion

My mind has cleared a little; I’ve regained some instincts and associations, echoes of the Living world if not actual memories. Those I still have to steal.

~ Isaac Marion

How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.With nothing causing it.

~ Philip K. Dick

...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...

~ John Geddes

Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own history is beclouded by time, but a few sharp rays, in the form of pictures, falling upon a given day would resuscitate whole contexts. And from this archipelago of moments, scenes, episodes, you could see the larger tectonic movements of your life forming and unforming. You would be reminded of who you are. Or at least of who you were.

~ Thomas Beller

Who are we without our memories?

~ Marta Acosta

[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.

~ James Robertson

What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.

~ William Faulkner

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It's sad when the people you love most become a bitter memory.

~ Kiera Forsythe

Our shoes carry our body, so we polish them; our body carries our soul, so we clean the body, but, what about our soul”?

~ Rahul Rampal

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet

~ Stephen Hawking

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

~ Ben Stein

Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.

~ Graham Greene

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

~ Truman Capote

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!

~ Henry James

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

~ Michael Burke

It is easy to do good, but it takes a lifetime to become human!

~ Aainaa-Ridtz

The real funny thing is, whether the demons exist or not at all in your life, it's nothing to do whether you believe or not to one, none nor both of them.

~ Toba Beta

The only disability that I have, is that I'm human.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Being human complicates things.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.

~ Steven Magee

If we misread the blueprint of our life, we need not be ashamed of backtracking on our chosen options. Admitting to mistakes may make us human and maybe great again. (Sisyphus' hardship on the hill)

~ Erik Pevernagie