Quotes About Life

What was archaeology to him? It was the opposite of killing things. It was trying to will life back into stuff that had been forgotten and buried for thousands or millions of years. It was not about shards and pieces of bone or treasure; it was about kneeling down in the elements, paying very close attention, and trying to locate a spark of the human life that had once touched that spot there.

how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist

The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find.

I'm not afraid of death, just of dying.

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.

One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I'll die with should I never use it.

If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on.

In the story of life"Hope" is the Hero who protects the Lady Love "Dream (Desire from the bad guy "Fear".

Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

The continuation of man's life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.

There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

I'm not afraid of death really, just what comes after.

The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too fearful to look

I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.

Winning and losing is not an external game. It is an internal battle over telling yourself the truth vs. lies regarding why you haven't stepped into the life you dreamed of.

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.

No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.

If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

The only people who fear death are the ones who haven't lived.