Life Quotes

I might not have faith in many things, but I do have faith in this; that the one who sent me out will allow me to finish the mission.” -Regan

~ Brittany L. Engels

What is the point of living this beautiful life if you do not have a mission that ends up making the world a better place to live.

~ Manoj Arora

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

~ Terri Garey

A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

~ Amy Poehler

I don't really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you'll be back.I just wanna know what will make me cry at your arrival.

~ Ade Santi

The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.

~ Bella Pollen

Just the thought of you and all the universe conspires against me.

~ J. Limbu

You expect certain things to always be there, like the bakery on the corner, or the boy you grew up with. But when the very ground can eat you alive without warning, what's to say the ocean won't dry up? Or the stars won't suddenly shut off? Nothing is forever.

~ Stacey Lee

There are some souls, bright and precious, which, like gold and silver, may be subdued by the fiery trial, and yield to new moulds; but there are others, pure and solid as the diamond, which may be shivered to pieces, yet in every fragment retain their indelible characteristics.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.

~ William Shakespeare

Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.

~ Dennis Prager

Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope.

~ Michael Paterniti

In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life.

~ Sara Gruen

There is tragedy all around us, we pick up pieces, we find our feet and before long another turn of events stare us in the eyes; like we're some kind of magician- the fight seems endless, so I look to the world for inspiration. I observe and I watch how others face adversity, some hide from it, some master each lesson and some create a life with it... Our lessons don't define us, our integrity to keep rising after every fall is.

~ Nikki Rowe

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

~ Debasish Mridha

When something is tragic you never really forget it.

~ Sophia Olson

But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that's when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed, but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong, that's celebration.

~ Shauna Niequist

If your life is like a tragedy it is because you have been neglecting something — most likely yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Life is a mystical and tragic thing. It is a journey often full of fear, when it ought to be full of hope. It's fascinating to look back on your life and feel as though most of it was a precursor to the rest of it; to what was always supposed to be.

~ L.k. Hill

It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.

~ Cristina García

Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies.

~ Travis Beacham

But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.

~ Margaret Atwood

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

~ Henry Miller

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

~ Tom Perrotta

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Nothing says you're more sexy than when you wear clothes.

~ Anthony T.hincks

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

~ Dean Koontz

Let the dead bury the dead...

~ Harper Lee

Everyone at every minute of his life must feel something. Only the dead have no sensations.

~ Konstantin Stanislavski

Half awake and almost dead. But yet we were breathing and yet we were waiting...Waiting for a miracle to happen.

~ M.l Van De Weetering

As for what concerns me in particular I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that perhaps, after all, there is more life in me than in you. Look into it more carefully! Why, we don't even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join on to, what to cling to, what to love and what to hate, what to respect and what to despise. We are oppressed at being men--men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalised man. We are stillborn, and for generations past have been begotten, not by living fathers, and that suits us better and better. We are developing a taste for it. Soon we shall contrive to be born somehow from an idea.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The dead neither see nor ear.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The dead are emotionless.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

~ Nikolai Gogol

How fortunate, then, that we serve a God who quickens the dead. Who breathes life into the lifeless. Do you not think that a God who formed man out of dust can form a new creation in you?

~ Roseanna M. White

I see ghosts like you see a normal person. Looking regular, tangible as ever and even more alive than most of the people you’ll see walking around the streets.

~ Tia Artemis

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

~ Marcel Theroux

Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead.

~ Rachel Van Dyken

I understood that to live is to be free ... that to have friends is necessary ... that to fight is to stay alive ... that to be happy you just need to want ... I learned that time heals ... that the grudge disappears ... that disappointment does not kill ... that today is a reflection of yesterday. I understood that we can cry without shedding tears ... that true friends remain ... what a pain strengthens ... what to win magnifies... I learned that dreaming is not fantasize ... that to smile you have to make someone smile ... that beauty is not what we see, but what we feel ... that the value is in the strength of achievement ... I realized that words have power ... that to accomplish is better than to talk ... that the look does not lie ... that living is learning from mistakes ... I learned that everything depends on the will ... that the best is to be ourselves ... that the SECRET of life is LIVE! And one of the things I learned is that one should live though. Although, one must eat. Although, we must love. Although, it must die. Even it is often the very although that pushes us forward. It was the despite of that gave me an anguish that unsatisfied was breeder my own life.

~ Pedro Bial