Quotes About Life

Me puse a formular una nueva ley que describiese la relación entre protección y abatimiento. Un alma triste puede matarte más deprisa que un germen, mucho más rápido.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Não tem medo que não seja bom como a gente imaginou? [morar na Califórnia] Respondeu ela rapidamente - [...] Seria viver muitas vidas ao mesmo tempo. Temos mil vidas diante de nós, mas, ao fim delas, todas se tornam uma só.

It made him feel alive; he seemed to be living more acutely than at other times.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar

Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

La donna può cambiare meglio dell'uomo, disse Ma' in tono rassicurante. La donna la vita ce l'ha tutta nelle braccia. L'uomo ce l'ha tutta nella testa. Non ti devi scoraggiare. Magari... be', magari l'anno prossimo abbiamo un posto tutto per noi.

Seems like our life's over and done. No, it ain't, Ma smiled. It ain't, Pa. An' that's one more thing a woman knows. I noticed that. Man, he lives in jerks -- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk -- gets a farm an' loses a farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, it's all one flow, like a stream, like eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on -- changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right on.

If all the dew were diamonds...we would be very rich. We would be drunk all our lives.

You bastards never owned nothing. You never planted trees an' seen 'em grow an' felt 'em with your own hands, You never owned a thing, never went out an' touched your own apple trees with your hands. What do you know?

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he died unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

Je sens que je suis un homme, et l'homme est une chose très importante, peut être plus importante qu'une étoile

Is thinking" focused not on ends but on the process of life

But why couldn't she tell me? Why did I have to discover- Because you couldn't receive it. Because in your smallness you had not the graciousness to receive this gift. You cannot live because you have not ever looked at life. You crush loveliness on the rocks of your stinking pride. I wonder if you ever could understand.

think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. And my life has not been a full orchestra for a long time now. A single note only—and that note unchanging sorrow.

The smells of life and richness, of death and digestion, of decay and birth, burden the air.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

There is more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this not only strengthens their infirmity and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

Hay más belleza en la verdad, aunque sea una verdad terrible. Los narradores de historias de las ciudades falsean de tal manera la vida, que la hacen parecer dulce a los ojos de los perezosos, de los estúpidos y de los débiles, y eso sólo contribuye a reforzar sus flaquezas, sin enseñarles nada, ni hacerles el menor bien, ni engrandecer su corazón

them," he said. "The dust is warm," said Samuel. "Now it goes this way. 'And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man from the Lord."

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

Kar??mda nadasa b?rak?lm?? koskoca bir arazi duruyor, yan?mda da nadasa b?rak?lm?? koskoca bir adam. Ä°sraf gibi geliyor bana. Ä°srafa gücüm yetmediÄŸi için de kötü bir his verir. Hayat?n? nadasa b?rakmak iyi bir his mi?