Quotes About Life

Let the grave mound grow a little grass, I always say; then it's safe to look.

De alguna manera -había argumentado Garp- la vida es demasiado. La vida es un folletín melodramático no apto para menores, John

Every time you throw a snail off the dock, Ray teased Homer Wells, you're making someone start his whole life over. Maybe I'm doing him a favor, said Homer Wells, the orphan.

What is this fascination the world has with death?

If you live long enough, Bill - it's a world of epilogues, Richard Abbott said.

in the hospital, Jenny Fields felt she was making up for lost time; she was discovering that people weren't much more mysterious, or much more attractive, than clams.

Real life is too sloppy a model for good fiction," Juan Diego had said.

Homer Wells, listening to Big Dot Taft, felt like her voice – dulled. Wally was away, Candy was away, and the anatomy of a rabbit was, after Clara, no challenge; the migrants, whom he'd so eagerly anticipated, were just plain hard workers; life was just a job. He had grown up without noticing when? Was there nothing remarkable in the transition?

Loved ones leave us and we go on—ghosts or no ghosts, my way or Molly's, we still see them. As Matthew and I knew, the dead don't entirely go away—not if you see them on the subway, or in your heart.

The chain of events, the links in our lives—what leads us where we're going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don't see coming, and what we do—all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.

Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.

Meaning Michael Milton; meaning the whole thing.

That's actually happened?' Ruth asked. 'Everything's happened,' the prostitute said.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me the most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

When you lie, it makes you feel in charge of your life. Telling lies is very seductive to orphans. I know because I tell them, too. I love to lie. When you lie, you feel as if you have cheated fate - your own, and everybody else's.

I must part with you for my whole life, she read, with horror. I must begin a new existence amongst strange faces and strange scenes. The truth of that closed the book for her, forever.

worst of all were the highly unlikely science-fiction novels, or the equally implausible futuristic tales. Couldn't my mom and Nana Victoria see for themselves that I was both mystified and frightened by life on Earth?

POKUD TI NA N??EM ZÁLEŽÍ, MUSÍÅ  SI TO CHRÁNIT; POKUD MÁÅ  TO Å TÄšSTÍ, ŽE JSI NAÅ EL ZPÅ®SOB ŽIVOTA, KTERÝ TI VYHOVUJE, MUSÍÅ  NAJÍT ODVAHU HO ŽÍT.

Okay," I said. There are these moments when you see the course of your life unfolding, and you feel powerless to alter it.

But Vienna was in its death phase; it lay still and let me look at it, and think about it, and look again. In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still.

R?pinkit?s savo gyvenimu, - pasak? Zajoncas Harvardo studentams. - Jeigu jau tiek pasiek?te, j?s? profesiniai reikalai tur?t? susitvarkyti savaime.

Well, that boy's voice," my grandmother told me, "that boy's voice could bring those mice back to life!" And it occurs to me now that Owen's voice was the voice of all those murdered mice, coming back to life—with a vengeance.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT—IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.

How I live matters more than what I do. I have ambitions for the quality of how I live. I have no ambition for making money ...and I'd have time to read enough to be a constant source of information, ideas and language.