Quotes About Life

A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.

She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.

I felt caught in a dilemma that was new to me then but which since has become horribly familiar: the trap of adult life, in which you are held, wriggling, powerless to act because you can see both sides. On that occasion, as generally in the future, I compromised.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

would flower; and where birds came—and pecked

The world where the owl is endlessly hungry and endlessly on the hunt is the world in which I live too.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

No experience can ever be repeated, and in this fact we find all the tragedy of life and at the same time its glory—its irrepressible movement.

We may be heartened by our sojourns on Sinai, but no man may live his life in the clouds. And what does pragmatism mean if not just this? We can only, as James told us again and again, understand the collective and distributive by living. Life is the true revealer: I can never understand the whole by reason, only when the heart-beat of the whole throbs through me as the pulse of my own being.

Life is the true revealer: I can never understand the whole by reason, only when the heart-beat of the whole throbs through me as the pulse of my own being.

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

I love vulgarity, good taste is death, vulgarity is life

We must make a heroic effort to rid our lives of all but one motive, that "impractical" spirituality of the saints, a life in union with God.

Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

Just lately I have been happier than I ever had the right to expect, and as one goes around the world one sees that happiness is hard to come by and seldom lasts for long.