Quotes About Life

The truth would set her free. Only then would she be able to get on with her life.

Love's not what makes the world go around.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. 'Rejoice,' came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. 'Watch the moon and stars...' Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

Life should be good - Life should be very, very good - and the only duty we have to the dead is to make it good for ourselves and other people.

With life came loss. The war and the years since had taught her that. There's be sadness in her life to come, as well as happiness. Even the most blessed lives had both. She'd live them as they came.

Darling Jed. One day wee are all going to die. That should make us love each other more, not less. Use the time we are given." "That sounds very wise. But doesn't it just mean life hurts you more?" "It means you pay for love," said Nancy. "But it is always worth it.

I knew this was a jewel of a day that would glow bright for my whole life, brighter than any ruby in Macbeth's crown.

unaware of the fate around the corner.

But in her seventy and more years, she had learned that the risks taken for others gave the greatest rewards.

Jackie French

Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

Poetry in here keeps the conversation open between the living and the dead, the misunderstood and the wise, the imprisoned and the free. Koestler Voices Vol. 3

Life, he told me, was like a fork of lightning. He could see exactly where one decision violently parted company with another and a new future flared up before him.

She was a contradiction like that, you know. The things she wrote down were warmer than her, in person. That sounds like she's dead, he thought. Well, in a way, she is, you know, in a way she is dead. — 'How To Get Away With Suicide

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

A life has no importance except in the impact it has on other lives

We don't get to choose our formative moments. Very often, adversity and failure shape us more permanently than fortune and success.

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

The first birthday is the key to identity.

All we need to know is that beauty is truth, said Keats, and I'm sorry to sound callous, but what he actually needed to know was the cure for his general malaise and for the illness that eventually killed him, aged twenty-five. *

Maybe, by a certain age, we have all encountered some impossible loss, or at least the accumulation of small sufferings.

I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead.