Quotes About Life

Calling for an end to the cold war, he said that "in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we share this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

then I'd worry that my coffee would be muddy and my croissants burnt and he'd only give me the baguettes with the misshaped ends. Life wouldn't be worth living.

We live in a global economy where voracious political and corporate greed has turned your life into a disposable commodity to be used and discarded.

She wanted to warn them; they would waste their youth because they did not realise just how fleeting it was, and because most people did.

It was a bastard, life. It had the knack of throwing you a curve every now and then to keep you interested. To give you a reason to keep going. Then, just as you thought you had cracked it, you took delivery of a blow that was so severe you were amazed at how you could ever have survived it. But somehow you did, and somehow you carried on.

job!' This son of hers was caught up in the middle, as usual. It was the bane of the middle child's life. Caught between the first-born and the last-born, they were often left to their own devices.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.' – Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 'He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.' – Proverbs, 28:20 'Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!' – Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900

Nothing begins, and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own.' Francis Thompson ('Daisy', 1913), 1859-1907 'Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.' Colley Cibber (The Double Gallant, 1707), 1671-1757

Life is like a shit sandwich. The more bread you've got, the less shit you have to eat.

Something good always came out of tragedy. He had heard that many times and now he knew it was true. God had given him a second chance at life and he was going to grab it with both hands.

There was an old Irish saying of my nana's – she always said you get the life you deserve. I hope against hope that there was no truth in that. But only time will tell.

regrets were a waste of time.

She is in every flower you see and every butterfly and in the clouds and in the trees.

Youth, as Oscar Wilde had once said, was wasted on the young!

Oscar Wilde said that youth was wasted on the young, and he was right. When you were young you wasted not only your own life, but usually someone else's as well.

One day, you'll wake up and thirty or forty years will have flown by.

Live your life how you want. Before you know it you'll be old. Old as me. And when you get to my age you get a different perspective on life. Suddenly, every day seems just that little bit shorter. You feel the ache coming in your bones. You know that the best, most fruitful part of your life is over. I read once that when people get old and go senile, they go back to a time in their life when they were useful.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. Jean Anouilh

surviving. One day she will have good times, another day bad times. It's called real life and she will have to get used to it.' Kevin hugged her.

life was just a series of events, that was all, and you had no real power over it whatsoever. You just thought you did.

Every night and every morn Some to misery are born. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence

Listen, life is short, even at its longest, it's short.

Life's a big present from God but what you do with it is up to you. You get one crack at it, it's not a dress rehearsal as me mother used to say.

Everything changes. Everything has to change. Sure, that's what life is all about, isn't it? Making things happen, making things change.