Life Quotes

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

~ Albert Camus

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

~ Dan Simmons

I feel like I'm sleeping when I'm awake, and really living when I'm asleep.

~ Michael J. White

And sometimes when I tilt my head,in that deep sleep, I realize I forgot to tell youwhat happened at work, in the thick of,all other rubbish daily stuff.And then I hate to believe, it’s more than5 hours to hit the snooze, and now suddenly the night seems longer- than any lazy afternoon.I want to talk to you now, before I forgetHow I have imagined you will react, word by word,And act by act. But I kind of manage dozing off in a few minutes,And I clearly forget it morning,This entire instance.But tonight- when you are asleep, and I amWide awake like a snake, I don’t say I forgot anyBuzz to discuss, but I have this insane gushOf words of tell you I how much I have loved you through.Precisely none of this should be forgotten,So I decide to write this poem and tell you,I am so much in my moment of truth.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

If making a difference in someone else’s life makes me sleep every night, then I will do it everyday.

~ Gugu Mona

Forgive all before you go to sleep, you'll be forgiven before you get up. – Lord Krishna.

~ Vikrmn

Adulthood’s full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.

~ Emily St. John Mandel

Who cares what time you wake up and go to bed? What matters most is what you do with your life in between.

~ J.r. Rim

My bed is the magical place I love to overthink like a PSYCHO.

~ Tanya Masse

A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

There are not enough words in the English language to describe the experience of this. Death is more than life. Humans put their animals “to sleep” when it’s really waking them up. Everybody has it all backwards.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Some experiences are so wonderful, we are like those who dreamed experiencing it. Yet some are beyond amazing when compared to our best experiences we are as though we had been sleeping all the while.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

~ Dean Koontz

Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping that when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beast below. Hoping you pull up anything at all. Maybe this is why I only sleep a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to me recently, a desire so sharp and focused I can hardly believe it's mine: I don't want to die. I don't want to disappear. I want to stay.

~ Isaac Marion

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

~ Charles Bukowski

Be honest with yourself; set the alarm for the time the Real You will get up, not the Ambitious You, because the Ambitious You doesn't really exist.

~ Laurie Notaro

To sleep and being able to. RareTo sleep and deserve it. Rarer.

~ Saleem Sharma

Sleeping is terrifying.When you close your eyes and surrender your consciousness to the void, you lose yourself—voluntarily—and you're trustingly assuming you'll find yourself back out of the labyrinth again.Usually you do.But sometimes you don't.It's that uncertainty, more than anything, which kills me. That I might not wake up, and wouldn't know it.That I could be dead, dreaming I'm alive.

~ Nenia Campbell

He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping. Nor did he care.

~ Orson Scott Card

Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.

~ Banksy

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

~ Virginia Woolf

The world had opened out and so had the universe, or what she since had thought must have been the universe, lying all spread out before her, with ever nook revealed, with all the knowledge, all the reasons there - a universe in which time and space had been ruled out because time and space were only put there, in the first place, to make it impossible for anyone to grasp the universe. Seen for a moment, half-sensed, a flash of insight that had been gone before there had been time for it to register on her brain, sensed and known for an instant only and then gone so quickly that it had left impression only, no certain memory and no solid knowledge, but impressions only, like a face seen in a lightning flash and then the darkness closing in

~ Clifford D. Simak

Half your life is spent in thinking of the past and the other half in thinking about the future. The journey never begins. Either you roam around the byways of your memory, which is a dead dream, or you wander in your imagination which is a dream of the future, which is still to come. You are divided in these two. The present is in the middle, and that is where life is – but you miss it!

~ Osho

There are many fishes in the sea and then there are the beautiful swishy mermaids. Me?! No I'm not the fish not even the mermaid, I dont belong to the sea. I am the Ocean! At a horizon far far away I'm a whirlpool of storm rising and chasing, twirling and dancing to my own tunes and at another all calm serene still and silent, I am the ocean! limitless boundless infinite and as beautiful as I may seem from the outside, I have life within!

~ Himanjali Singh

Forms come and go. You, the quantum non-entity behind your human identity, comes nor goes.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

May you listen to the voice within the beat even when you are tired. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a door that opens your heart, expands your understanding, and leads you to freedom. If you are weary, may you be aroused by passion and purpose. If you are blameful and bitter, may you be sweetened by hope and humor. If you are frightened, may you be emboldened by a big consciousness far wiser than your fear. If you are lonely, may you find love, may you find friendship. If you are lost, may you understand that we are alllost, and still we are guided—by Strange Angels and Sleeping Giants, by our better and kinder natures, by the vibrant voice within the beat. May you follow that voice, for This is the way—the hero’s journey, the life worth living, the reason we are here.

~ Elizabeth Lesser

Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life sucks. Enlightenment is getting over it.

~ Ari Delta

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

~ Charles Dickens

Walk on your own sacred path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The difficulties of life don't stop attacking your self-worth and self-confidence, you just have to repair and fortify every time. Recall and recite it; tell yourself what you are worth.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Your greatest competence are your courage and confident.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be joyful and expect a great future.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.

~ Michael A. Stackpole

Our life contains a thousand springs,And dies if one be gone.Strange that a harp of thousand stringsShould keep in tune so long.

~ William Billings

God wants you to bless Him because it’s the purpose you were originally created for.

~ Andrew Wommack

There is no answer for life, creation, or mankind. We make the answer.

~ Gabriella Jording

Then, only then would she realize that the life that she created will extinguish with nothing to offer but the sorrow that she harvested in our souls and the holes that she dug in our hearts.

~ A.p. Sweet

To exist in this poem [of creation] is a greater gift than any finite creature can imagine. To be so insignificant and yet still be given a speaking part, to be given scenes that are my own, and my own only, scenes where the audience is limited to the Author Himself (scenes that I often flub), to have been here with my frozen nose, to have been crafted with at least as much care as a snowflake (though I'm harder to melt), and to hear and feel and see and taste and smell the heavy poetry of God, that is enough.

~ N.d. Wilson