Life Quotes

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

~ Mitch Albom

Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it.That is all. We eat it.

~ Sherwood Anderson

No more tomorrows. Today is the day.

~ Richie Norton

You can spend all your life looking for things. The truth is that those things will elude you. Change your approach. Begin to seek God and you will see things running after you.

~ Theophilus Ajadi

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

~ Raymond Carver

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

~ Samuel Beckett

Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

~ Mary Balogh

I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said.“Life can be difficult for everyone,” she replied.“Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.

~ Patricia Grasso

Understand this first and foremost that you are the center of your existence; nobody else is responsible. No matter how burdensome it feels, but you alone are responsible. If you accept this truth all sorrow will soon disappear. Because once it is clear that I am making this game, how long will it take you to destroy it?

~ Osho

The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around. He is convinced that these would befall only to others and not on to him.

~ Gian Kumar

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

~ George Orwell

After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.

~ Guy De Maupassant

Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never learns to enjoy.

~ Rita Dove

We are in misery because we are creatures of self - the self that is unyielding and narrow, that reflects no light, that is blind to the infinite. Our self is loud with its own discordant clamour - it is not the tuned harp whose chords vibrate with the music of the eternal. Sighs of discontent and weariness of failure, idle regrets for the past and anxieties for the future are troubling our shallow hearts because we have not found our souls, and the self-revealing spirit has not been manifest within us. Hence our cry.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

~ Louis C.k.

If your life is a miserable disaster, you might want to consider, that it's because you are doing something wrong.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Misery alternates with euphoria.

~ Patricia Gaffney

I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.*Fantine

~ Victor Hugo

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care...Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who at lucky! As for the other men, stagnant night is upon them.

~ Victor Hugo

When that bastard calls back, you tell him he’s won this round. I’ll marry him. But I don’t take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that?

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

~ Tommy Lasorda

Life is a game, you can't afford to lose.

~ Tracy Bleers

It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to get up more than you fell down.

~ Kameron Hurley

Hume hummed in his head. Reason versus passion- David versus Goliath. Let the Goliath win for one last time. But the world is full of the Davids, the begging bastards, passing of their defeat as a win over the favorites. Why the world sides with the under-doggies. A favorite is nobody's favorite, but one's one. As if he has to pay a toll tax for his tolls.

~ Aporva Kala

Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

~ Wilma Rudolph

Life is a game that you win when you solve the puzzle of yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.

~ Dale Earnhardt Jr.

When you are successful every day, success loses its value.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea

~ Jennifer Brown

When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.

~ Neshialy S.

Right then I wasn't a freak. I wasn't an ice queen. I didn't have powers. What I had was a friend comforting me when I needed it most. Right then I was just a normal girl, and Ryan was the superhero.

~ Kelly Oram

you're the fly on the wall hearing all, seeing allears of a wall hearing all the secretsperhaps you're the vines creeping over the old abandoned mansion wallsdusty, soulless and deadbringing a certain curious life to rubbleand I think you're the jewel-eyed geckosneaking around the warm summer wallsbetween jasmine and olive branchessticky pad toes, clinging to the wallspeeking in at lonely summer spicy love-makingthrough silk curtains from the bright orientbreathing in incense and tasting decadenceclimbing the sharply barbed wallsthe smooth cemented white-washed wallsbecause walls breathe too

~ Moonshine Noire

Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

~ John Cheever

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and veryfew employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that onyour own time.

~ Charles J. Sykes

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)

~ David Levien

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

~ Brian Koppelman

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)

~ Brian Koppelman

WHAT CAN YOU SPEND BUT YOU CAN NEVER GET BACK????TIME!CHOOSE HOW YOU SPEND YOUR TIME AND WHO YOU SPEND IT WITH WISELY.

~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier