Quotes About Life

You are afraid all the time, and there are good reasons to fear," is the opening line about life in prison by Columbia University law professor Robert Ferguson in his 2014 book, Inferno.[49] What are the dimensions of this fear, this disseminated terror?

At its best, the expression crucified God reminds us that the power of all life, "God," faces and suffers the worst that a creature can endure and emerges with newfound power, strength, and hope. What

What is sacralized or made holy is not suffering but the facing, endurance of suffering, the resisting it with hope and life.

The phrase the executed God reminds us that the God who was bound up with the life of Jesus of Nazareth was exposed to material conditions so malignant that he was executed. Jesus did not die accidentally. He

We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!

If I were asked to give a commencement speech (which I'll never be), I'd say basically: They're all gonna laugh at you. Life is pretty much like Carrie's prom. So ... stay secret.

But that's what nonfiction is, people. Shitty feelings and encounters with death.

We're so far from having any control over what happens to us, it's not even funny. Well, that's not true, actually. It is funny.

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition.

I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and especially between writers and readers of autobiography. The reader of an autobiography consumes the life of the author, and the author, in turn, consumes the life of the reader, that portion of it surrendered to reading, or listening to, the autobiography.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms

steer clear of any chatty, bearded weirdo who wants to tell you how terrible the future will be. Go about your business and assume that life will be okay. Without the evil influence of devils, you should be fine.

But I was right and the real world seemed increasingly nonsensical. Why train for years to do a job you bitched about all day? Didn't it make more sense to follow your dreams and maybe do a little good at the same time? I didn't want to be a lawyer or a bank manager or a goddamn burger flipper. We only get one life and I wanted mine to be exciting...

Like most people my age, I merely existed.

Artificial pleasures arrive stillborn; they have no life of their own.

there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

we think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go of what we want so badly and our life will unfold. For love is everywhere.

life is always where we are.

The treatment of fundamentalism may be said to have succeeded; the patient survived. But at least for the life of the mind, what survived was a patient horribly disfigured by the cure itself.

Terror thrives on the bottomless pit of imagination, and the imagination comes to life with the passage of time. Time is its vintner, the family its furtile field.