Life Quotes

Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'… Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret.

~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.

~ Neil Gaiman

I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

~ Emma Donoghue

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

~ Orson Scott Card

Not only a few times, but every time he did not give in to his urge to go look for her, he resented the moment that came in its place. Even if the moment was beautiful and was something he valued, and made him who he was. He could not help but also long for that other life in which he lived with Della, even if she abused him.

~ Amanda Coplin

Don't let your fear help you birth a well-nourished regret, take action today!

~ Steve Maraboli

Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it, because it suddenly dawned on me that this was why I had come, to tell him You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call my life make any sense. And if I should hear that you died, my life as I know it, the me who is speaking with you now, will cease to exist.

~ André Aciman

Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and mothballs like a hunted ornament confabulating with the ghost of all my evenings. I'd dust him off from time to time and then put him back on the mantelpiece. He no longer belonged to earth or to life. All I was likely to discover at this point wasn't just how distant were the paths we'd taken, it was the measure of loss that was going to strike me--a loss I didn't mind thinking about in abstract terms but which would hurt when stared at in the face, the way nostalgia hurts long after we've stopped thinking of things we lost and may never have cared for.

~ André Aciman

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

~ Édith Piaf

We all have different lives, Martin believes – but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we thought might somehow sustain us.

~ Simon Van Booy

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

~ Lionel Shriver

Fear waters the weeds of regret.

~ Steve Maraboli

We can spend today joyously celebrating potential by acting upon our purpose, or we can spend it mourning the days and opportunities gone by… the first will find you amongst the few who are content and accomplished; the latter will find you with the suffering majority as you exhaustedly swim in the ocean of regret.

~ Steve Maraboli

The real regrets in life are the risks you didn't take.

~ Habeeb Akande

No such thing as time travel, he'd rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you've done, and try in the future to do what you're happy to live with.

~ Richard K. Morgan

Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now?

~ Nadège Richards

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

~ Laura Lippman

After a life of being entombed, essentially a slave to an unfair beginning,I am free. I'm a liberated whore of the world with little to no inhibitions.(Annie from upcoming book 3)

~ Robert Kimbrell

This is not a white and black business we are in. There are messy shades of crimson haunting us in everything we do.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

He had seen so much of life, but even more of death. He had seen countless eras come and go and still he braved forward, forever alone. And here she was ready to give up after a few lousy years. She was a coward.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

No one stays the same, David. Everything you are is a direct result of something that's affected you in your past, whether it was horrible or wonderful -- no one has the right to destroy themselves because they can't deal with the pain. You have to learn from it. It's not over--the good in your life--it's not over until your dead.

~ Angela M. Hudson

Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.

~ Michelle Zink

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

~ Ray Bradbury

My little donkey, if I hadn't shown up, your fate would have been sealed. Love has saved you. Is there anything else that could erase the innate fears of a donkey and send him to rescue you from certain death? No. That is the only one. With a call to arms, I, Ximen Donkey, charged down the ridge and headed straight for the wolf that was tailing my beloved. My hooves kicked up sand and dust as I raced down from my commanding position; no wolf, not even a tiger, could have avoided the spearhead aimed at it. It saw me too late to move out of the way, and I thudded into it, sending it head over heels. Then I turned around and said to my donkey, Do not fear my dear, I am here!

~ Mo Yan

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.

~ Henry Chancellor

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

All the bravery that lines our lives, in the ordinary moments adds up to an extraordinary, successful life.

~ Andrea T. Goeglein

Drop your weapons once and they will dig you in to the grave forever.

~ Ameya Agrawal

I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.

~ Tahereh Mafi

It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.

~ Jack London

maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear

~ Veronica Roth

Everyone loves a kick-ass girl. (Well- maybe not her enemies, but you know what I mean.)

~ Sarah Cross

This Land Is Protected By Million’s Blood Bath, If Needed, We’ll Fight Again By Sipping The Death Bowl....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

~ Markus Zusak

Those who serve and those who ruleLepers, kings and mindless foolsEmpire leaders, tyrant's toolsAll will fade with timeHail the cowards, brave at heartThe ugly and the beautifulThose who never felt their soulsAll live transient lives

~ Kreator

It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison... it takes courage to do something about it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Be calm, be brave, it'll be okay.

~ Guster

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so wel

~ Anne Bradstreet

May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is ... Chocolate.

~ Geraldine Solon

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

~ Virginia Euwer Wolff