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Quotes About Life

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
~ Ludwig von Mises
Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.
~ Jostein Gaarder
Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]
~ Fernando Pessoa
I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.
~ Christopher Pike
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored.
~ Stephen Batchelor
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.
~ William Butler Yeats
What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.
~ Michael Cunningham
On the whole I woke up in the morning and was happy to be alive.
~ Art Buchwald
What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.
~ Michael Cunningham
i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.
~ Stephen Fry
It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.
~ William Wyler
I'm a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I'm a tired person.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart during the night, and in the morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.
~ Mark S. Fowler
I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman's voice said, 'What the hell are you doing with your life?'
~ Demetri Martin
It's morning again, little hope, and the world's drying of with fresh-laundered sunshine. Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.
~ Kolbein Falkeid
... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.
~ Charles Bukowski
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.
~ Mason Cooley
I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
~ Faith Hill
So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.
~ David Cottrell
When you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you can be sure you're dead.
~ Herbert Achternbusch
The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.
~ James Salter