Life Quotes

... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

~ Marcel Proust

Stanley forced a smile to his lips at the memory of the onesided romance; it was silly, after all, a stupid childhood crush. Who’d fall in love with a fictional character? That was the kind of thing you laughed about as an adult. Or at least Harriet had thought so. He couldn’t quite do it, though. Couldn’t quite see it as a joke. It had felt too real, too raw and wild and fierce, for him todismiss it even now. It was love, of a sort, stunted and unformed as it was. For a time, it had kept him sane.

~ Amelia Mangan

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being...

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

~ Julia Quinn

Love is what remains after the falling in love is gone.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Read this to yourself. Read it silently.Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything.What a wonderfully weird thing, huh? NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD! SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND! DROWN EVERYTHING OUT.Now, hear a whisper. A tiny whisper. Now, read this next line in your best crotchety- old man voice:Hello there, sonny. Does your town have a post office?Awesome! Who was that? Whose voice was that? It sure wasn't yours! How do you do that?How?! It must've been magic.

~ Bo Burnham

I embraced a cloud,but when I soaredit rained.

~ Frank O'hara

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

~ Ned Vizzini

Who you are is not determined by what you wear, the money in your wallet, nor how you look. Who you are is simply determined by who or what you follow. If you follow money you will only seek after such, giving your all for it. If you seek after what they call, 'fun,' your life will be aimed towards finding a way to fame, or a new way to party. If you follow the Lord Jesus your life will be given to Him, and the hopes and dreams you have will be in pleasing Him!! Everyone follows someone or something. Who will it be? Choose wisely- you are important!!

~ Mary Kate

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

~ Patrick Swayze

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

As long as there's life, there's hope.

~ Tamora Pierce

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes—forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

~ Neil Gaiman

The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.

~ R.n. Prasher

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.

~ Shiro Amano

Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness.

~ Landon Parham

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos.

~ Goenawan Mohamad

Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

~ Janet Fitch

Now I'm making a decision. I choose life. I shall live because there are few people I want to stay with for the longest possible time and because I have duties to discharge. It is not my concern whether or not life has meaning. If I am unable to forgive, then I shall try to forget. I shall live by force and cunning.­

~ Tayeb Saleh

O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.

~ Machado De Assis

Trust to some was placing all your insecurities and beliefs in one single person, and hoping he or she wouldn’t squash them.

~ Holly Hood

Love meant hope. Without love, life held no promise.

~ Christie Craig

She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

~ Haruki Murakami

Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life, gifted with hopes to succeed.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.

~ Nusrat Sultana

this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhiliration of good health. and if we never cried, we wouldnt be able to recognize joy. in a way, the good only gains value when it is contrasted with the bad

~ Priscilla Warner

Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

~ Roman Payne

Remember this, - where there is life there is hope. You're alive. Embrace this, because YOU CAN DO ANYTHING while there is breath in your body.

~ Lola Jaye

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth