Life Quotes

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Chocolate says I'm sorry so much better than words.

~ Rachel Vincent

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

~ Haruki Murakami

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.

~ Raymond Carver

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

~ C.s. Lewis

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

~ Joseph Campbell

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

~ Walker Percy

Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.”Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.”Mom: “Television is a passivity.”Me: “Ugh, Mom, please.”Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.”Mom: “You don’t take pot, for starters.”Me: “See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”Mom: “You’re going to Support Group.”Me: “UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”Mom: “Hazel, you deserve a life.

~ John Green

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

~ Jennifer Niven

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

~ John Lennon

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

~ John Green

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

~ Paulo Coelho

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

~ Raymond E. Feist

Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You were not born on earth to please anyone; you have to live life to express yourself, not to impress someone. Don't pretend to be someone you're not, and never lose yourself in search of other people's acceptance and approval.

~ Roy T. Bennett

How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary, be that “extra” in “extraordinary.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You cannot escape the consequences of your choices, whether you like them or not.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

All knowledge is worth having.

~ Jacqueline Carey

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

~ William Shakespeare

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

~ C.g. Jung

Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.

~ William Stafford

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

~ Charles Addams

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

~ Henry Rollins

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

~ Albert Einstein

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

~ Steve Maraboli

When you make a choice, you change the future.

~ Deepak Chopra

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

There's no advantage to hurrying through life. -Shikamaru Nara

~ Masashi Kishimoto

It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.

~ Steve Maraboli

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

~ Anne Lamott

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

~ Edgar Allan Poe

It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.

~ George Carlin

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

~ Nikki Sixx

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

~ Lance Armstrong