Quotes About Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Marek Edelman in Krall, Shielding the Flame. After the war Edelman became a cardiologist, commenting that when one knows death so well, one has more responsibility for life. Chapter

I only did my duty—if you can save somebody's life, it's your duty to try.

El arte es más complejo, por supuesto. La emoción intensa crea tensión, y queremos que el artista la sienta por nosotros, que sufra, que goce y describa las cimas de su respuesta apasionada a la vida de modo que podamos apreciarla a distancia segura y podamos saber mejor cuáles son las dimensiones del espectro completo de la experiencia humana.

La variedad es la promesa que la materia hace a los seres vivos.

I will honor all life —wherever and in whatever form it may dwell—on Earth my home, and in the mansions of the stars.

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.

There are too many silly rules in our lives," she said, "and our lives are far too short to pay attention to them.

What's loved, lives.

But how many other kinds of life are there that I could learn to feel? Who knows where thought is hiding? . . .

When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?

This is why one must be careful with life, her father had said, in very controlled wrath. Death is the most hateful thing. Don't allow the destruction of what you can never restore.

And to the Pig he said, What's the meaning of life? You know, a friend of yours was asking me the same thing the other day, said the Transcendent Pig, ambling over, sitting down, and looking Ponch over in an amiable way. Is asking, it added.

No one noticed them, which was just as it should have been; and life in the city went on….

It was an annoying realization, but it was the truth; and as such, she wouldn't have given it up for anything.

NO! came his scream from beyond the wall of trees, hating, raging, desperate. But Nita felt no fear. It was as it had been in the beginning; all his no's had never been able to stand against life's I Am.

Time has passed. Things have happened. More time will pass. More things will happen. I have become myself again, but I am not the same. Perhaps that is a good thing... This is my life and I'm going to live it.

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

I looked out into the dead garden. Against the fading light, my shadow hovered in the glass, looking into the dead room. What did she make of us? I wondered. What did she think of our attempts to persuade ourselves that this was life and that we were really living it?

The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most.

My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the time since everything finished.

Todos los niños mitifican su nacimiento. Es un rasgo universal. ¿Quieres conocer a alguien? ¿Su corazón, su mente, su alma? Pídele que te hable de cuando nació. Lo que te cuente no será la verdad: será una historia. Y nada es tan revelador como una historia. Vida Winter, Cuentos de cambio y desesperación.

Un nacimiento no es, en realidad, una introducción. Nuestra vida, cuando empieza, no es realmente nuestra, sino la continuación de la historia de otro.