Quotes About Life

Mark had said it wasn't too late in life for happiness. When, in Julia's life, would it be late enough for honesty? It was amazing how little changed as everything changed. The conversation was continually expanding, but it was no longer clear what they were talking about.

Wat is er mis met dat verlangen en dat nodig hebben? Niets. En de gapende afstand tussen de plek waar je bent en je oorspronkelijke voorstelling hoeft niet per definitie mislukking in te houden. Teleurstelling hoeft niet teleurstellend te zijn. Het verlangen, het nodig hebben, de afstand, de teleurstelling: groeien, weten, toewijden, naast elkaar oud worden. Je kunt heel goed alleen leven, maar niet een leven lang.

Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, could be dangerous, could bring life, mean things that mean things.

My dad once told me that before I was born, when the only proof of my life was sonograms, he had to believe in me. In other words, being born allows your parents to stop believing in you.

Children bury their dead parents, because the dead need to be buried. Parents do not need to bring their children into the world, but children need to bring their parents out of it.

But not even to save your life?" "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

This is what my grandmother meant when she said, "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

That really changed me, when I realized that an excruciating life is worse than an excruciating death.

long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there—not because they anticipated space travel but because Buddhists strive to live with questions and Jews would rather die.

None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he'd managed to live forty-two years without proximity to mortality. And that amazement was always followed by the fear that the statistics would catch up with him and offer a lot of death at once. And he wouldn't be ready.

a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Ojalá vivas todos los días de tu vida!

it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.

May you live every day of your life

Herkes uzun yaÅŸamak ister ama kimse yaÅŸlanmak istemez.

But as human happiness is of a very short duration, so in those days were human fashions upon which it entirely depends.

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it and return no more.

Añadí que la vida que había llevado desde entonces era lo bastante trabajosa para matar a un ser diez veces más fuerte que yo; que mi salud se había quebrantado mucho con aquella continua y miserable faena de divertir a la gentuza a todas las horas del día

by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

Even drought bears fruit. Even death is a seed.

God's hands stay on the wheel of your life from start to finish so that everything follows his intention for your life. This means your trials have more meaning—much more—than you realize.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all