Quotes About Life

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

God never intended the law to be the means of giving life. Rather it was designed to bring the knowledge of sin and to convict of sin.

El hombre que aprende de memoria grandes porciones de las Escrituras enriquece su propia vida y aumenta su potencial para bendecir a los demás, si

las Escrituras deben llegar a ser una parte tan importante de nuestras vidas que moldeen nuestra conversación dondequiera que estemos y cualquier cosa que hagamos. Debemos

The fact of the matter is that obedience to the Lord's command is the most sane and reasonable life and the one that yields the greatest joy. The witness of Scripture and of experience testifies that no one who lives sacrificially for Christ will ever suffer want. When a man obeys God, the Lord takes care of him.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit

William Makepeace Thackeray

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

Nurse Dennison's husband, conventionally true to the family tradition of nausea, burning throat, and convulsions, had passed on in the autumn of 1951, with, of course, the conventional policies on his life.

Take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours.

Dunia adalah milik orang bersemangat yang bisa menjaga ketenangannya.

Coulda made something o' himself. But a luckless man. All his days a luckless man. The kinna man woulda got two complimentary tickets for the Titanic." The unintentional humour of her remark was like her natural appetite for life reasserting itself. Harkness couldn't stop smiling. It was as if Glasgow couldn't shut the wryness of its mouth even at the edge of the grave.

The year came and receded like any other leaving its flotsam of the grotesque, the memorable, the trivial.

Aye. He was very nice there. The rest of my life'll be an anti-climax.

Laidlaw had seen that quality of arbitrarily shifting perspective before, always in people whose environment was putting them under pressure. It was as if they had been overtaken by the hardness of their experience and mugged by it, so that they lived the rest of their lives concussed.

William McIlvanney

Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.

Real terror – the genuine belief that your life is about to end violently – erases everything but itself from the brain.