Quotes About Life

la tía Lala decía que ella

Perhaps the solution is to have a little project every day. If there's no reason for you to get up in the morning it really doesn't matter if you are alive or dead.

Life on Earth is quite a bargain. Dreams, for one, don't charge admission. Illusions are only costly when lost. The body has its own installment plan. —Wis?awa Szymborska, "Here

En la ausencia de Dios, no nos queda otra cosa que vivir el doble, como robándole bocanadas a la muerte. Asentí.

Al final, Ana, nuestra tarea, la de nosotras mujeres, es dar a luz y cerrar los ojos de los muertos. Exactamente los dos pasos claves de la humanidad. Como si la historia realmente dependiese de nuestras manos.

In every life there's a full moon. As long as you can recognize it, at least, you can enjoy it and feel crystal clear and complete.

Voglio dire che mancano le motivazioni. L'unica incrinatura seria consisteva nel fatto che il suo tempo interno e il tempo esterno non coincidevano. Ma dimmi, Rosa... non credi che se questo fosse un motivo sufficiente per togliersi la vita, il nostro paese sarebbe quasi completamente spopolato?

La vida entera transcurre en la cocina

Qué es lo que te atrae de ese mundo? Que es real, le contesté, que está vivo y agregué con cierta tristeza que no pude disimular, y supongo que lo vivo duele.

It's strange that the only certainty life gives us is one we fear so much.

Any life, bad as it may be, is better than nothing. Better than terror and that frozen fear of death. It's strange that the only certainty life gives us is one we fear so much.

No será, Camila, que al fin y al cabo el sentido de la vida es vivirla? No creo mucho en las respuestas filosóficas: todo se resume en vivirla entera y vivirla bien.

like the last few lays of an old man waiting for impotence to strike. I

If you get run over as you cross the street perhaps you won't even realize it.

Nuestros amores fueron como los misterios del rosario: gloriosos, gozosos, y cómo no, dolorosos.

Una vez la niña preguntó. _La vida va a ser así para siempre? _No, no - le contestó, definitiva, la madre -. Si fuera así, Dios no nos habría puesto sobre esta tierra. y si lo hizo, fue por algo. Espérate, ya sabremos sus razones.

Everyone suffers, who doesn't, for God's sake? So there should be some kind of manual explaining how the hell to bring back happiness in spite of your troubles.

Marcella Hazan

I could almost disappear and the world would go on, a never-ending sentence without a pause.

Love last one single perfect moment; the rest is merely reminiscence of what has already happened, but the single moment can be enough to make sense of more than one life.

Niet om onzentwil, maar omdat vader en moeder naar een aardig speelpopje verlangen, wordt een kind de levenstaak opgelegd.

Whereas it (modern science) does say that we are an accident in an indifferent universe, it also says that we are a rare accident and thus not pointless.

There is an enormous difference between life and intelligent life.

Lucretius wrote in The Nature of Things: Especially since this world is the product of Nature, the happenstance Of the seeds of things colliding into each other by pure chance In every possible way, no aim in view, at random, blind, Till sooner or later certain atoms suddenly combined So that they lay the warp to weave the cloth of mighty things: Of earth, of sea, of sky, of all species of living beings.