Life Quotes

Nothing Is Important, Yet Everything Is Important

~ Shon Mehta

Life—life—how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.

~ Aimée Dostoyevsky

War takes so many more casualties than just the dead.

~ Katherine L. Walker

I may no explain you much about myself but we both have one thing in common & its tears.

~ Srinivas Shenoy

First we are tested on our strengths, then we our strengths are tested

~ Marianne

Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish?

~ Azar Nafisi

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endure the betrayal of false friends;to appreciate beauty;to find the best in others; to leave the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn’t a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboatcomes slowly out and then goes back is truly worthall the years of sorrow that are to come.

~ Jack Gilbert

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Because life is a symphony it must have its C Minor. Days there be when we hear only a discord of sharps and flats, and we wonder whether harmony will ever be restored. On other days we hear only an ominous, deep strain which seems to say that hope is fled. But why this chill despair? Symphonies are a blending of many tones, high and low, over and under, major and minor. One day cannot make a life a whole any more than shadows can make a picture or minor notes a symphony. We need to hear life's song, not as the discord of a single day, but as the completed harmony of all the years. Then will today's sorrow and tomorrow's disappointment ring forth in major key as glorious melody.

~ W. Waldemar W. Argow

Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings have been from the moment they began? They are born of toil and molded from the clay of sorrow.They wander the world for a time, then set off.

~ Omar Khayyám

You didn't date someone to change him. You dated him because you wanted him for the way he was. Flaws and fears and all.

~ Jean Oram

disappointment is devastating, even if it’s something that you didn’t really expect to occur.

~ Hilary Grossman

You can never please everybody, don't even try.

~ Stella Oladiran

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

~ Annette Curtis Klause

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

To achieve something is better than not achieving.

~ Sam Winters

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little. You've done well, and honourably.

~ M. J. Carter

If you list down whatever you didn’t get to do, then whatever you did won’t feel like it mattered.

~ Saim Cheeda

When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do.

~ Geoff Dyer

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

~ George Leonard

When you weep and lament, you will struggle to achieve and rejoice.

~ Auliq Ice

Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

Some people are just crazy about something while others are lucky enough to get that.

~ M.h. Rakib

Perfecting is a journey...There is no destination called perfection.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Achievement is not important, attempt is...!

~ Milind K

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.

~ Denis Waitley

Life is what we make it to be; can be other people’s life or it can be our special one. The difference is that the first we sit and watch and basically we know the ending but the second is defined by us and require lots of work and effort to define the way we want to live by. It is a journey with no end in sight, no distance measured behind, just going. It is a faith similar to the faith to your God but this one is just faith in yourself and your capability to define a path with a vision of the future that you really can not see but rather feel and sense.

~ Hisham Fawzi

I didn’t make choices based on what I liked or didn’t like. I simply accepted what they chose for me. My role had always been to react and adapt to what was decided by other people, by outside circumstances, or in my mind, by God. My voice went unheard in my own life.

~ Jonna Ivin

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

~ Julia Child

I couldn't tear my eyes away from the blood. As odd as it sounds, I felt irritated. I'd just cleaned that glass when I first came in on my shift today. Knowing Jim, he'd make me clean them again before I could go home. After he chewed me out, of course.

~ Rose Wynters

Some people like me, some don't. I don't understand, Where the difference comes from. My heart like them all. For a simple childish reason. We all are created equal, we all are humans.

~ Santosh Kalwar

He walked out the door and with each step my heart breaks.He'd be gone for days with long silences between each breath.I know I'm his one of many and he knows he's my one of one. The only one who holds him down.Yet, he still leaves.He walks through the door and with each step my heart leaps.He crumbles to the ground in tears telling me he's sorry.He says he needs me and he's nothing without me.How can he be so attached and detached at the same time?I swear, this man loves to see me in pain.

~ J.a. Anum

I'll stop loving you the day my shadow stops following me around. Because on that day, nothing will make sense.

~ J.a. Anum

The first time I saw your face, my lips said, hello and my heart said, that's your wife.

~ J.a. Anum