Famous Quotes

... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They're quite awareof what they're going through...

~ David Bowie

Pain or love or danger makes you real again....

~ Jack Kerouac

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

~ Jason Mraz

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

~ Markus Zusak

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

~ George Orwell

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

~ Franz Kafka

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy, happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival, it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...

~ Nick Hornby

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

~ Eric Berne

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

~ Angela Schwindt

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

~ Jeannette Walls

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

~ Albert Camus

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

~ Ian Mcewan

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

~ Haruki Murakami

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

~ Morgan Matson

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

~ John Irving

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

~ Lois Lowry

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

~ Haruki Murakami

I don’t chase after anyone, If you wanna walk out of my life, then I’ll hold the fucking door open for you.

~ Wiz Khalifa

Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Dreams are necessary to life.

~ Anaïs Nin

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

~ J.a. Konrath

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

~ Anne Sexton

[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

~ Lev Grossman

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

~ Eric Roth

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

~ Anne Lamott

This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.

~ C. Joybell C.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.

~ Pittacus Lore

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

~ Charles Baudelaire

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

~ Rainbow Rowell

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

~ Henry David Thoreau

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

~ George Orwell

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

~ Mitch Albom

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action, and they will make it if they cannot find it.

~ Charlotte Brontë

After you're gone, people will forget your name, no matter how important it was, and your face, no matter how pretty it was, and what you said, no matter how clever any of it sounded.The things you've done will crumble and fade and the places you once loved, will change and be given new names.You are only here for one moment and it lasts exactly one lifetime.

~ Pleasefindthis

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so, we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

~ Seneca

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

~ Joseph Conrad

There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit.

~ Steve Maraboli

Girls get screwed.Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feelcheap for doingexactly what they beg for.The way they get to play you, all the while claiming they love you and making you believe it's true.The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricotwhen the peach blushes and bruises.These things make me believe God's a man after all.

~ Ellen Hopkins