Quotes About Life

Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.

All present life is but an interjection, An "Oh!" or "Ah!" of joy or misery Or a "Ha, ha!" or "Bah!"—a yawn, or "Pooh!" Of which perhaps the latter is most true. —LORD BYRON

The second god lived by mountains that flowed By the blue shiny lit roads Had forgot what others still tried to grasp

They fail to realize that 99.9 per cent of people with a healthy diet will eventually die.

The mystery of death throws shadows over even the most carefree human life. None of us is truly indifferent to the possible issues concerning our personal eternity. The fall and eternal ruin of an immortal spirit is the most dreadful tragedy imaginable.

The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.

Steven] King is an entertainment. King is a diversion. But when you try to take him as a guide to life, he won't work. The circles he draws on the deep are weak and irresolute. And this is so in part because King...is a sentimental writer. In his universe, the children...are good, right, just and true.... But bring this way of seeing the world out into experience and you'll pretty quickly pay for it. Your relation to large quadrants of experience...will likely be paranoid and fated to fail....

Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how rarely do most of us look up and smile in gratitude and pleasure?

This was life, really lived, a passage of magic that would flash before our eyes when we died. And to share it, to live through these experiences together, meant that Laura and I were closer than ever.

No life is unremarkable.

After the ecstasy, it is said, comes the laundry.

The Taoists realised that all opposites aren't opponents that must clash but are part of a dynamic balance of existence, necessary to create and sustain life.

The ancient sages understood that the good life needed to be more than just survival, that perfect health and many years to enjoy it was as real a satisfaction as could be found,

Imagine someone in a skeleton costume. The costume is innocuous inasmuch as it is mere fantasy of dead bones over a living body of flesh. But, of course, there is a skeleton beneath that living body of flesh. Just as the skeleton is a costume over the flesh, the flesh is a costume over the skeleton. Flesh dies and reveals the skeleton, as if the skeleton is the death to come that is already inside the living flesh.

Customer results contribute to population results. What we do for our customers is our contribution to the quality of life of the community.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

We all want answers to the big questions.

Life is what it is, a gift that is given to us for a time—like a library book—that must eventually be returned. How should we treat this book? If we are able to remember that it is not ours to begin with—one that we're entrusted with, to care for, to study and learn from—perhaps it would change the way we treat it while it's in our possession.

The circumstances of a life must not dictate our terms of living it; that decision resides only in one's reaction to circumstance.

A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.

marriage, children, illness, and death were life-changing events. Everything else was just ripples in the river.

Best years of my life. Hell, killing, drinking, and fucking—to an Okie from Henryetta, Vietnam wasn't no war, it was a goddamned vacation." He shook his head. "Politicians fucked up a pretty good war.

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children." —MILTON GREENBLATT, M.D.

Live like you were dying, Love because you are.