Quotes About Life

Children are the anchors of a mother's life. —SOPHOCLES, Phaedra

There's a foot of space and world of contrast between Cristina and me yet I too know how hard it is to peel back the veneer of your life and to peek at the real. It's like waking up in a room and getting out of bed and realizing the furniture has been completely rearranged. You will eventually find your way out but it will be slow going and you're bound to get some bruises along the way.

Dying is a misnomer. You're alive, until you're not.

I wondered how two boys - like Shay and me - could begin at the same point and somehow take turns that would lead us to be such a different men.

Regardez mon enfant, voyez l'éclat de ses boucles folles et son sourire pareil à un vol de papillon. Un tel visage ne peut pas être celui de quelqu'un qui meurt à petit feu. Je ne la connais que depuis deux ans. Mais si vous preniez chaque souvenir, chaque instant, si vous les étiriez bout à bout, ça ferait une éternité.

et de fines rides d'expression lui encadrent la bouche, parenthèses renfermant toute une vie de mots que je n'étais pas là pour entendre.

That's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be next. I had laughed. you would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

When the life left a person, it wasn't by degrees. It was instant, like someone pulling down a shade on a window. The

when you held one of those volumes in your hands you were leafing through another person's life. Someone else had once loved that story, too. Someone else had carried that book in a backpack, devoured it over breakfast, mopped up that coffee stain at a Paris café, cried herself to sleep after the last chapter. The scent of their store was distinctive: a slight damp mildew, a pinch of dust. To me, it was the smell of history.

Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or—in this case—feared might come to pass passed by instead

If you chose to stop a loved one's suffering—either before it began or during the process—was that murder, or mercy?

But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

Of course, that's not really accurate," Dr. DeSantos says. "The future is going to come, in some form, whether we like it or not. What we really mean is that we can't plan for the future. And when we can't plan—when we can't find those patterns that make sense—we lose the skeleton of life. And no one can remain upright without that.

Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or—in this case—feared might come to pass passed by instead. Alex had spent enough nights thinking of good fortune, of how it was thin as a veil, how seamlessly you might stream from one side to the other.

She'd thought that death could be an answer, because she was too immature to realize it was the biggest question of all. Yesterday

he would see this moment forever—one of life's gallery of pictures—

believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.

Death is the guest you didn't invite: arriving when you least expect it, when you least need it, and when you least want it. It's a blow from behind. A knife in the back. The shadow that's following you. It's why you always keep looking over your shoulder.

what they felt. They prayed for their lives but had no control over them; I pray for my death but have no control over it. This is why I want you to help me.

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ some stories just don't have a happy ending.

There have been too many moments in my life when I've nearly gone off the rails, more overwhelmed by emotion than tempered by reason.

What was the point of having a life if you never had the chance to live it?

That's what happens to dreams," Charlotte said. "Life gets in the way.

You heard form Jacob these days? No, which is the way I wish it to be, Aaron said quietly. Ephram shook his head. He was banned from the Church, Aaron. Not from your life. They're the same to me. That's the thing I don't understand, you know. Since forgiveness is the very first rule. -Plain Truth