Quotes About Life

Il vento trascina lontano tutto ciò che credevo di volere. Sono un disgraziato a spasso nella vita.

Il fango fermo della vita ora è polvere che vola verso di me.

Mi bacia a lungo sulla bocca, poi si lecca le labbra, dice che sono il sapore della sua vita.

Qui è sepolta mezza Sarajevo. Le date di nascita cambiano, quelle di morte si ripetono. Era come un sacco nero, il destino. La morte fece un raccolto straordinario, in quei tre anni. La morte è solitudine e loro furono privati anche di quella privatezza, costretti a crepare a grappoli come insetti. Essere derubati della vita sembrava quasi accettabile, alla fine, ma il furto della morte è un'altra storia... finire alla rinfusa, mischiati come panni sporchi, come frutta marcia.

?akal bom ladje, sedel bom v katerem izmed bifejev ob pristaniš?u, na z apnom pobeljenem dvoriš?u, z uzom in mezeji in piškoti iz medu in mandljev z medom in mandlji pred sabo ... vdihaval bom te sladke vonjave. In ?akal. Sedel bom na modrem stolu in ?akal. Gledal bom menjavanje letnih ?asov na nebu z odprto knjigo na srcu. Ob morju se nebo hitro spreminja. Življenje se zgosti pred temi široko odprtimi vrati.

La vita, credimi, non è un fascio di speranze perdute, un puzzolente ricamo di mimose, la vita raglia e cavalca nel suo incessante splendore.

Margaret Mazzantini

Spesso non ci accorgiamo di quello che abbiamo, non siamo grati alla vita.

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.

Life without tears is like goulash without paprika.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

The sidewalks swarmed with people, the night was full of the noises of the living. They struck Miss Clarvoe's ears strangely, like sounds from another planet.

It didn't even seem ironic to him that he should be planning remarks about truth and justice when, in fact, his whole life had been a marathon race, with truth a few jumps ahead of him and justice a few jumps behind. He had never caught up with the one, and the other had never caught up with him.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Rosebuds might be sweet, but one need never be so careful of the rose in full bloom.

even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.