Life Quotes

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

~ Jo Nesbø

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

~ C. Northcote Parkinson

Denial couldn't be maintained.

~ Dean Koontz

Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written.

~ Peggy Toney Horton

Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your song.

~ Peggy Toney Horton

Life offers the ability to pursue what catches your attention.

~ Steven Redhead

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

~ Mark Strand

Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention.

~ Steven Redhead

I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special.

~ Merrill Markoe

Not everyone who stares likes us, we may look weird enough to get everyone’s attention.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.

~ Orson Scott Card

What if this was a sign? Maybe I’m not supposed to be an Outsider.He surprised her by taking her hand and threading his fingers through hers. “You already are an Outsider. You fit everywhere. You just don’t see it yet.”She stared at their hands. He’d never done that before.Roar gave her a droll look. “It’s just odd having you lay your hand on my arm all the time,” he said, responding to her thoughts.Yes, but this feels intimate. Don’t you think it does? I don’t mean that I think we’re being too intimate. I guess I do. Roar, sometimes it’s really hard to get used to this.Roar flashed a grin. “Aria, this isn’t intimate. If I were being intimate with you, trust me, you’d know.”She rolled her eyes. Next time you say something like that, you should toss a red rose and then leave with a swish of your cape.

~ Veronica Rossi

What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?

~ Jeanette Winterson

Life is too precious to be left to chance

~ Walter Moers

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

~ Brandon Boyd

Take a chance on me and I will prove how worthy your life is.

~ Heenashree Khandelwal

I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

~ Jessie Jones

But I don't believe coincidences are chance events. I think they're the times we happen to see the mysterious pattern connecting everything.

~ Julie Gittus

Life is full of chances, don't miss yours today.

~ M Howson

Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.

~ Marty Rubin

Life is but a play of chance in the game of choice.

~ Twinkle Khanna

Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.

~ Michel De Montaigne

All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games.

~ Deyth Banger

Life is the greatest chance that has been given to all of us. So how do you choose to live your life? You’ve got a pen. Write it down.

~ Kcat Yarza

Seventy years I regard as the limit of the life of man. In these seventy years are contained, without reckoning intercalary months, twenty-five thousand and two hundred days. Add an intercalary month to every other year, that the seasons may come round at the right time, and there will be, besides the seventy years, thirty-five such months, making an addition of one thousand and fifty days. The whole number of the days contained in the seventy years will thus be twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty, whereof not one but will produce events unlike the rest. Hence man is wholly accident.

~ Herodotus

The biggest opportunity one can get in life, it is a chance to make friends!

~ Unarine Ramaru

I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.

~ Paul Auster

So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.

~ Roger Ebert

You have only one life! Take a chance, make a change, and live!

~ Kim Yannayon

Nightmares are at all times better than real life, because you always have the chance to start over everything.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I'm taking the chance, walking away, breaking the rules nobody here can tell me what to do.

~ Kiki

When life gives you something that makes you feel afraid, that's when life gives you a chance to be brave.

~ Lupytha Hermin

Betrayal. Lust. Secrecy. Devotion. I think we do these things to feel more alive. When the truth is that alive is alive -- you can feel it in anything, if you give it a chance.

~ David Levithan

We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.

~ Susan Glaspell

A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy.

~ Dennis E. Adonis

You're not really in control, not with this falling-for-people stuff. You don't plan who you're going to fall in love with. It's all random - chance accidents of time and place.

~ Julia Green

...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

~ Dean Koontz

You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free.

~ Milena Michiko Flašar