Quotes About Life

As it turned out, I did kill pigs that

Mas em uma vida solitária, há raros momentos em que outra alma mergulha perto da sua, como estrelas roçando a terra uma vez por ano. Ele foi para mim uma dessas constelações.

Ta?iau vienatvei pasmerktame gyvenime pasitaiko ret? akimirk?, kai greta tavo sielos netik?tai nusileidžia kita, kaip kad žvaigžd?s kart? per metus paglosto žem?. Man jis buvo b?tent tokia žvaigžd?

For me these four years had been an abundance, time that had been wrested from the hands of the miserly fates. But for them it was a life stolen: from children and wives, from family and home.

My son must live. There is no must to the lift of a mortal, except death.

He says, it will be all right. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

I'm made of memories

You have eked out ten more years of life, and I'm glad for you...You have made a fair run of blocking fate's path. But you cannot do it forever. The gods will not let you.

The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within.

Je n'aurais pas été honnête de regretter ce qui m'avait donné la vie.

Und wie lautete dieser Gedanke? Dass mein ganzes Leben bisher aus trüben und tiefen Wassern bestanden hatte, aber dass ich nicht Teil dieser dunklen Fluten war. Ich war ein Geschöpf, das darin lebte.

Wenn du jedes Mal eine Träne vergießt nur weil irgendwo ein Mensch stirbt, bist du in einem Monat ertrunken.

I think; This is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: How long do we have?

those things that steady a man. They were unmarried when they left. They had no children. They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save. They have not seen their parents grow old and begin to fail. They have not seen them die. I fear I have robbed them not only of their youth but their age as well.

mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

But even I could not fill each minute with fear. I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it—in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom. The days passed, and he lived. Two months passed, and I could go a whole day without looking over the precipice of his death.

He was spring, golden and bright. Envious Death would drink his blood, and grow young again.

They could not do much themselves. Except live, forever.

El destello rosado de su labio, el verde febril de sus ojos, su rostro desprovisto de arrugas… Nada en él decaía ni se marchitaba. Él era áureo, deslumbrante, era la primavera. La envidiosa muerte se bebería su sangre y sería joven de nuevo.

There is no must to the life of a mortal, except death.

There was a vividness to him, even at rest, that made death and spirits seem foolish

ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed,

Lassù le costellazioni ruotano e tramontano. La mia natura divina sfolgora in me come gli ultimi raggi di sole prima di tuffarsi nel mare. Un tempo pensavo che gli dèi fossero opposti alla morte, ma adesso vedo che sono più morti che altro, poiché sono immutabili, e non possono trattenere nulla nelle mani. Per tutta la vita mi sono sempre spinta avanti, e adesso eccomi qui.

Pero cuando se lleva una vida solitaria, se dan pocos precisos momentos en los que un alma se sumerge junto a otra, del mismo modo que, una vez al año, las estrellas rozan la tierra. Para mí Dédalo fue esa clase de constelación.