Life Quotes

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

~ Bella Pollen

The last great escape. I was done gambling, done betting on a ship that would never come in. I would cash in my chips while I was ahead. I didn't want to suffer the growing old, didn't want to wait until my memory went. It was all so tiresome. I would just go out in a blaze of glory before the parasites of sadness got at me and made me bitter. After that's the American way: take your own life before everything else takes it from you.

~ Brian James

You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

~ Margaret Atwood

He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.

~ Milan Kundera

Before I knew escape, life was something to be endured, passively. Now I hunger for it.

~ Kristin Halbrook

I set free the phantoms of my imagination.

~ Frigyes Karinthy

Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil?

~ Frigyes Karinthy

Everything returns and renews itself. The difference now is that the rate of these returns has increased, in both space and time, in an unheard-of fashion. Now my thoughts can circle the globe in minutes. Entire passages of world history are played out in a couple of years.

~ Frigyes Karinthy

Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.

~ Frigyes Karinthy

In today's society conformity is more of a necessity than an option.

~ Johan Coetzer

By nature, we want to be liked. We want to be accepted. But, most of the time, we allow our worth to be decided by the people on the sidelines. By people that see snapshots of our life but have no clue what the whole picture looks like.

~ Liz Newman

Our purest deeds are those done subconsciously, Otherwise they are biased.

~ Tapan Ghosh

Live like you want, not how others want you to live.

~ Anonymous

It's a a damn good day to be alive.

~ Michael Clifford

Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.

~ Steve Maraboli

It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life is simple, just be yourself.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.

~ Michael Harris

Keep your negativity to yourself. After watching you poison your own life with your opinions, I would be foolish to let you do the same to mine.

~ Steve Maraboli

God does not seek the opinions of others about your life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.

~ Daniel C. Dennett

Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.

~ Steve Maraboli

In life and in a boxing ring, the defeat is not declared when you fall down. It is declared only when you refuse to get up

~ Manoj Arora

Autumn is an interesting season, even in the metaphor of life, is a time of decline, of loss, but also intense and haunting beauty.Some places, like some people, never are, or have been, as beautiful in their fall.

~ Luigina Sgarro

Floating along like a leaf after fallI land soft on the crisp ground belowstill tempted to fly, God hold me in place.

~ N.m. Cherraj

I have never been one to fall when I can jump.

~ Ally Carter [Writer]

some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

~ Louise Erdrich

To avoid the fall often means living a less-than life.

~ Emily P. Freeman

I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.

~ Hannah Harrington

Sometimes I wish I was a guy. Life’s so much easier for them.

~ Cath Crowley

All my life, I ain't understand shit about what was going on. A thing just happen, then something else happen, then something else, an so on, and half the time nothing making any sense. But Dan say it is all part of a scheme of some sort, and the best way we can get along is figure out how we fit into the scheme, and then try to stick to our place. Somehow knowing this, things get a good bit clearer for me.

~ Winston Groom

If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Love as much and as hard as you can because one day in your life near the end, you may forget how it truly feels.

~ Jeanette Michelle

Life starts from a white hole and ends in a black hole.

~ Santosh Kalwar

In life, never lose hope that you are nearing a dead end, Only when you reach the end of the road you realize a road to its left and to its right.

~ Mohammed Mushtaq Gk

But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?

~ Franz Kafka

For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tick. Tick. Tick. This is the sound of your life running out.

~ Anonymous

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

~ Dean Koontz

Where life ends, peace begins!

~ Debasish Mridha