Quotes About Life

Such was life in the Islamic caliphate, bombs falling upon severed heads, in a park where children once played. It

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ultimately life was an elaborate game of providence and probability.

life is just as long as the time it takes to pass by a window.

He was one of those Americans who formed their impressions of life in the United Kingdom by watching reruns of Masterpiece Theater.

saber cómo acaba la vida solo conseguiría estropear la historia.

A terrible thing, isn't it?" "What's that, Ari?" "For the child to die before the parent. It upends the natural order of things.

The notion that modern England might not be a cultural paradise appeared to come as a shock to Brady Boswell. He was one of those Americans who formed their impressions of life in the United Kingdom by watching reruns of Masterpiece Theater. "A

face she could scarcely recall, the alcoholic brother who'd never worked a day in his life—but everything

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.

Clouds and buttercups exist in poetry, but they are there only because storms and flowers populate the world too.

Your legacy is the fragrance of your life that remains when you yourself are not present.

Pain was a part of so many good things - giving birth, writing a poem, asking forgiveness, even saying I love you. Complete freedom from pain meant separation from life.

We don't just treasure our memories; we are our memories

in the long run, people of every age and in every walk of life seem to regret not having done things much more than they regret things they did

En la vida no se obtiene lo que se merece, sino lo que se sabe negociar, o lo que el destino depara.

But a U-boat, like any other ship, is just so much cold metal until her crew comes aboard. Then each man in the crew loans her a little piece of his soul to keep as long as he serves in her — and often longer if she's a good ship. These little pieces all added together make up the soul of the ship, bring her to life, give her personality, and make her a member of the seagoing community of ships.

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

The day Edward Bloom was born, it rained.

What is it you say now, what peace is there to be made in the last minutes of the last day that will mark the before and after of your life until then, the day that will change everything for both of you, the living and the dead?

I look into his gray-blue dying eyes. We're staring at each other, showing each other our last looks, the faces we'll take with us into eternity, and I'm thinking how I wish I knew him better, how I wish we'd had a life together, wishing my father wasn't such a complete and utter goddamn mystery to me...

Still," he says, "if I shared my doubts with you, about God and love and life and death, that's all you'd have: a bunch of doubts. But now, see, you've got all these great jokes." "They're

He that has "a spirit of detail" will do better in life than many who figured beyond him in the university.Such an one is minute and particular.He adjusts trifles; and these trifles compose most of the business and happiness of life.Great events happen seldom, and affect few; trifles happen every moment to everybody; and though one occurrence of them adds little to the happiness or misery of life, yet the sum total of their continual repetition is of the highest consequence.