Quotes About Life

On the whole, it is less the sequence of ages that holds his attention than the general feeling of a kind of fatality:

The ages of life can be evoked independently from the progression that advancing age implies, by means of anticipation, which lays out a future, or memory, which recreates the past, and in any case, by letting the imagination play with time.

to be old is to be alive, and the signs of age are also the signs of life.

I age, therefore I live. I have aged, therefore I am.

Five minutes before his death, Monsieur de La Palisse was still alive.

Often, as I reflected on this story, it seemed to me a kind of image of my own life—the life of a man who gorged himself on pessimism, believing he would find in it a means to a dazzling and meteoric existence, loving his own despair until the day he realized—too late—that he could no longer emerge from it, and that he had thus fallen into the trap of his own enchantments.

tell me how you age, and I will tell you what you were.

despite the growing average life span, the age at which one becomes old depends upon one's social origin and type of occupation. The relationship to age is an expression of social inequality.

I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else.

I had gone with Henri Pirenne to Stockholm; we had scarcely arrived, when he said to me: 'What shall we go to see first? It seems that there is a new city hall here. Let's start there.' Then, as if to ward of my surprise, he added: 'If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a work to be made, and that work may well utilize much raw material we would prefer to do without.

Metabolism is oxygen. And oxygen comes from breathing.

Well, that shoots the morning." As I heard myself saying these familiar words, I was struck by their strangeness. Why would an act of charity shoot my morning? Isn't growing in love what life is all about? Yes, but the purpose of life often gets in the way of my agenda!

it is impossible for our life to be put on hold, for whatever is happening in the moment is our life.

In the same month that she began Story of a Soul, Thérèse wrote to her sister Léonie, "this thought of the brevity of life gives me courage, it helps me bear the weariness of the road...the hour of rest is approaching

when one expects pure and unmixed suffering, the smallest [10] joy becomes an unhoped-for surprise.

Thérèse wrote to her sister Léonie, "this thought of the brevity of life gives me courage, it helps me bear the weariness of the road . . . the hour of rest is approaching

From Thérèse's perspective, "they didn't think about death enough, and yet death had paid its visit to a great number of those whom I knew, the young, the rich, the happy

Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of [5]wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it will bring forth much fruit.

Dr. Nagash tried to comfort Tessa. He assured her they had people in the hospital who would help her get over the grief. That she was still young and had her whole life ahead of her. But how could the rest of her life ever match the 211 days she loved a green-eyed boy named Skylar?

Il y a des premiers baisers qui font basculer votre vie.

La vie a bien plus d'imagination que nous tous réunis, elle est parfois porteuse de petits miracles, tout est possible, il suffit d'y croire de toutes ses forces.