Quotes About Life

I would not have dreamed back then, could never have imagined, that one day I would be a childless mother too.

Funny how you can measure time by pets that were not even your own.

But their suffering doesn't mitigate yours." "Suffering doesn't make me special. Sooner or later, life knocks everyone down. It's how you deal with the knocks and dings that matter.

All her life, loneliness had weighed against her like a heavy coin tucked into a breast pocket, small but constant.

Century plants bloom only once just before they die." "So they go out in a flame of glory.

Live passionately or not at all.

Better than never having loved at all. The real moral of the story is that you should take love when and where you can find it because none of us know how long we have left.

What if she did get hurt? It wouldn't be the first time and it probably wouldn't be the last. Life hurt. That's how you knew you were alive. But life was also a beautiful adventure, and the bad things were what made the good things worth cherishing.

Good sense comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from actin' like a damn fool. —Dutch Callahan

the same and you know it." "Isn't it? So you had your heart broken. Any of us that have been around for any length of time have had our hearts broken. That's life.

none of us are getting out this world unscathed.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

O my floating lifeDo not save lovefor thingsThrow thingsto the flood

I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.

What horror to awake at night and in the dimness see the light. Time is white mosquitoes bite I've spent my life on nothing. The thought that stings. How are you, Nothing, sitting around with Something's wife. Buzz and burn is all I learn I've spent my life on nothing. I'm pillowed and padded, pale and puffing lifting household stuffing— carpets, dishes benches, fishes I've spent my life in nothing.

A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.

Honey, life can be a ballroom dance and it can be full of shit. Your job in both cases is to watch where you step.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle for a few loose ends, because even if everything in your life is connected to everything else, that way madness lies.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations.

I am] A fool who believes that death is waste and love is sweet and that the earth turns and men change every day and that rivers run and that people wanna be better than they are and that flowers smell good and that I hurt terribly today, and that hurt is desperation and desperation is—energy and energy can move things...

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy NOT to care...the WHY of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the HOW is what must command the living. Which is why I have lately become an insurgent again.