Quotes About Life

My heart's in New York City. But you can't live that pace forever.

The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack.

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

I believe that life offers you packages. It doesn't offer you good and bad, otherwise you will choose the good and you will leave the bad. It offers you packages and every package has some good and some bad.

As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.

I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.

I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

Aaranya Kaandam' is not the biography or history of a gangster but a page out of the life of a gangster. It is like a day in his life.

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

Everyone feels at times like they're missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life.

I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.

I was doing some research on menstruation for a column. I read about Arunachalam Muruganantham's life and work, and his story gripped me, and that is when I sat down, wrote the first few pages, and sent them off to my editor to have a look.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.

People die because they find living too painful.

If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.