Quotes About Life

Marley fez-me pensar no carácter efémero da vida, nas suas alegrias passageiras e oportunidades perdidas. Fez-me lembrar que só temos uma chance de chegar ao ouro, sem repetições.

I figli sono come orologi che non si possono ignorare; segnano l'inesorabile marcia della vita attraverso quello che altrimenti sembrerebbe un infinito are di minuti, ore, giorni, e anni.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

all I can tell you is that I account myself one of the happiest women in the world.

She was only twenty-eight. It was, wrote a chronicler

Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its own rhythm that drums like a heartbeat.

There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.

When we live in an environment filled with honest love, we are much freer to give more of our effort to other aspects of the work [of God]. I doubt there can be happy life without love, and the more honest the love, the more fulfilling the life. I wonder if this isn't the basis of the Savior's statement, I am come that they might have life, that they might have it more abundantly. Isn't He the embodiment of love, and isn't it His greatest desire that all of us be full of love for one another?

I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium.

Only a change in our way of life would heal the sickness of our age — and this is only likely to happen when disaster confronts us.

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

En un mundo superior puede ser de otra manera, pero aquí abajo, vivir es cambiar y ser perfecto es haber cambiado muchas veces.

To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.

To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.

Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

Non temere che la vita giunga a una fine, temi piuttosto che non abbia mai inizio.

Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.

Weeds already hid the ashes, and wild flowers were in bloom among the city's bones. The bomb had not only left the underground organs of plants intact; it had stimulated them.

She taught me that the world would continue without me. And eventually I learned that lesson. It took some time...Everything is cliche. Her death taught me that life is short.

There's no peace in dying, but there's peace when it's done.

What more is there to say than it was traumatic, a moment that breaks your life in half? That you never heal from it, and it blankets your life in sadness and fear forever?

At some point I asked her if she was at peace with the idea of dying. She looked at me like I was stupid and insane. "No," she said. "I want to live." You idiot! would have finished the sentence nicely. It was one of the only times she seemed really disappointed in me. I realized I had learned everything I know about death from movies. There is no peace in dying.

This is not to say that there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells that they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.