Life Quotes

Without time, you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity....Time is what gives life significance.

~ J.r. Ward

Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay.

~ Seneca

We do our job and go. See? That is what Death is for. We work out all our little brains and all our little emotions, and then this lot begins afresh. Fresh and fresh! Perfectly simple. What's the trouble?

~ H.g. Wells

It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

You may lose many things in the way you have chosen, don't look back but serve your purpose.

~ Giridhar Alwar

There is power, value, happiness and fulfillment in a life of purpose.

~ Auliq Ice

It wasn't hard going to the gym, as long as he went as soon as he woke up, before he had time to think about not going. Those morning workouts made him feel like he was starting his day like a pinball, with a giant shot of momentum. The feeling sometimes didn’t wear off until six or seven at night (when it was usually overtaken by the feeling that he was just bouncing haplessly from one situation to the next without any real purpose or direction).

~ Rainbow Rowell

They say, find a purpose in life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless and adrift

~ Khaled Hosseini

If the path you are walking today won't lead you to your desired destination, then you are STROLLING

~ Fela Durotoye

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

~ Renée Vivien

I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind.

~ Benny Bellamacina

Sometimes being given the elbow can turn out to be the best hand.

~ Benny Bellamacina

I wish for you the wisdom to mind your own business.

~ Steve Maraboli

The important thing to remember is not to forget

~ Benny Bellamacina

Life doesn't get much better than this.

~ Stanford Wong

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

~ Orson Scott Card

Do the new, be the change.

~ Neeraj Vohara

I planned my whole future around Adam,' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.''No,' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

~ Sarah Dessen

The point of the list wasn't just to tick items off and forget about them, it was to learn something new.

~ Lindsey Kelk

That's life, You know . Dreams come true, just to get ripped away the millisecond you begin to let down your guard and let someone in. And thus the circle waits to begin anew.

~ Jacob Daniel Plunkett

Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

~ Melina Marchetta

Accept, forgive and forget. Forgive not only the people who hurt us, but also forgive ourselves, accepting whatever is the outcome, then forget the wrongs, learn from them and move on. Holding on to the guilt and pain would just make life miserable for us.

~ Kcat Yarza

Pardon me, you ... love life? You who exclaim and sing over and over and dance it too: i love you, life! Oh, I love you, life! Do you? Well, go on, love it! Camp life -- love that too! It, too, is life!

~ Aleksander Solženitsyn

A left turn meant life - if you called what went on in the sunbaked exercise yard life, and many did; many lived it for years, with no apparent ill effects.

~ Stephen King

Life is a prison in which we find ourselves.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier...

~ Hermann Hesse

High school is worse than having to swim through multiple prahana filled lakes- and that's before the truckload of homework.

~ Taylor Gaskins

What seems is not what is. Because, none knows what is left, when it is all right!

~ Pooja A.h.

One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

~ Marisha Pessl

In that second, I think about running through that door and going with him. But I know that it’s not the road I’m meant for.Because we’re both still incapable of love. We’re both not ready yet.And I know that I’ll miss him. And some nights, I’ll cry in my sleep.But for now, I’m okay. And that’s all that matters.The void in my heart has finally been filled.And as the train moves farther and farther from me on the platform, I can only smile.

~ L. Jayne

As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.

~ Marion Cotillard

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The sawdust flew. A slightly sweet fragrance floated in the immediate area. It was a sweet but subtle aroma, neither the scent of pine nor willow, but one from the past that had been forgotten, only to reappear now after all these years, fresher than ever. The workmen occasionally scooped up a handful of sawdust, which they put into their mouths and swallowed. Before that they had chewed on pieces of green bark that they had stripped from the cut wood. It had the same fragrance and it freshened their mouths, so at first that was what they had used. Now even though they were no longer chewing the bark with which they felt such a bond, the stack of corded wood was a very appealing sight. From time to time they gave the logs a friendly slap or kick. Each time they sawed off a section, which rolled to the ground from the sawhorse, they would say:'Off with you - go over there and lie down where you belong.'What they were thinking was that big pieces of lumber like this should be used to make tables or chairs or to repair a house or make window frames; wood like this was hard to find.But now they were cutting it into kindling to be burned in stoves, a sad ending for good wood like this. They could see a comparison with their own lives, and this was a saddening thought. (North China)

~ Xiao Hong

Their bony branches grew barer with each tearing wind. Their tall, leaning forms looked like a gateway to a long-abandoned world. They lived. Their roots were much deeper than mine would ever be. One day my tree would fall and die, gnawed by serpents.

~ Heather Crews

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

~ Willa Cather

I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.

~ Garth Stein

Death is like that, it blinks, we blink; not always able to see the Stop signs, hiding behind trees in the corner of the roads.

~ Anthony Liccione

Good things never last, bad things never die.

~ John Darnielle

Ignorance is a limitation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Life is like a trek to the mountain top. Everyone will eventually climb to the top. Later, or sooner, doesn't matter. What matters is - the person who holds your hand and prevents you from falling, the one who is always there to ease the climb for you...

~ Mehek Bassi