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Quotes About Life

Boredom, the numbing, annual predictability of life hung over the staff like a cloud. And it was real boredom, not my modish ennui. From it flowed cant, hypocrisy, and the impotent rage of the old who know they have failed and the young who suspect that they will fail. The senior masters stood like Gallows sermons; with some of them one had a sort of vertigo, a glimpse of the bottomless pit of human futility
~ John Fowles
I know what I am to him. A butterfly he has always wanted to catch. I remember (the very first time I met him) G.P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all. He meant art collectors, of course. I didn't really understand, I thought he was just trying to shock Caroline - and me. But of course, he is right. They're anti-life, anti-art, anti-everything.
~ John Fowles
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life.
~ John Fowles
Alison ma trezea din amorteala, dar Julie ma putea trezi din mormant.
~ John Fowles
Time is the flesh and blood of death; death is not a skull, a skeleton, but a clock face, a sun hurtling through a sea of thin gas. A part of you has died since you began to read this sentence.
~ John Fowles
Bu yüzden plan yapamay?z. Dünyan?n bir makine deÄŸil, bir organizma olduÄŸunu biliriz. Ak?ll?ca yarat?lm?? bir dünyan?n onu yaratandan ba??ms?z olmas? gerektiÄŸini de biliriz; planlanm?? (planland???n? iyice aç?k eden bir dünya) ölü bir dünyad?r. Karakterlerimiz ve olaylar?m?z ancak bize kar?? ç?kmaya baÅŸlad?klar?nda canlan?rlar.
~ John Fowles
Si valoro la existencia de los árboles por encima de cualquier otra cosa, de una manera muy
~ John Fowles
I know what it's like when people go away. It's agony for a week, then painful for a week, then you begin to forget, and then it seems as it never happened, it happened to someone else, and you start shrugging. You say, dingo, it's life, that's the way the things are. Stupid things like that. As if you haven't really lost something for ever.
~ Unknown
Oh! isn't it stupid, the war?-as if it was not good to be alive. He wanted to say: You can't tell how good it is to be alive till you're facing death, because you don't live till then. And when a whole lot of you feel like that-and are ready to give their lives for each other, it's worth all the rest of life put together. But he couldn't get it out to this girl who believed in nothing.
~ John Galsworthy
We are a breed of spoilers!' thought Jolyon, 'close and greedy; the bloom of life is not safe with us. Let her come to me as she will, when she will, not at all if she will not. Let me be just her stand-by, her perching-place; never-never her cage!
~ John Galsworthy
Qual è la vostra ricetta per conservare la giovinezza, Irene?» «Quando non si vive ci si conserva meravigliosamente».
~ John Galsworthy
that secret hostility natural between brothers, the roots of which --little nursery rivalries--sometimes toughen and deepen as life goes on, and, all hidden, support a plant capable of producing in season the bitterest fruits.
~ John Galsworthy
Mechanism! Everywhere – mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.
~ John Galsworthy
Yes,' muttered Jon, 'life's beastly short. One wants to life forever and know everything.' 'And love everybody?' 'No,' cried Jon; 'I only want to love once - you.
~ John Galsworthy
My Own Epitaph Life's a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once, and now I know it.
~ John Gay
Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it.
~ John Gay
Life's a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
~ John Gay
Sure, sometimes a non-angler will ask how I can stand to hook, play, and land these increasingly rare fish that I claim to love and respect so much, adding to their already heavy burden of survival. To that I can only say, "It's because life is more complicated than either of us could ever imagine." 21.
~ John Gierach
The good life is not found in dreams of progress,but in coping with tragic contingencies.We have been reared on religions and philosophies that deny the experience of tragedy.Can we imagine a life that is not founded on the consolations of action?Or are we too lax and coarse even to dream of living without them?
~ John Gray
He has no idea that by just listening with empathy and interest he can be supportive. He does not know that on Venus talking about problems is not an invitation to offer a solution. LIFE
~ John Gray
As commonly practised, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs' 'There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution' 'Human knowledge is one thing, human well-being is another.There is no predetermined harmony between the two' 'In the struggle for life, the taste for truth is a luxury-or else a disability
~ John Gray
the suggestions, strategies, and
~ John Gray
Darwin's theory shows the truth of naturalism: we are animals like any other; our fate and that of the rest of life on Earth are the same. Yet, in an irony all the more exquisite because no one has noticed it, Darwinism is now the central prop of the humanist faith that we can transcend our animal natures and rule the Eart.
~ John Gray
If you are looking to experience a life without the flow of negative and positive emotions, visit a graveyard and rest in peace.
~ John Gray