Quotes About Life

However, when humans forget to breathe they also forget they are alive, and this is dangerous. It can lead to a loss of perspective, and a focus on things like mortgages, professional rivalry, the car they should be driving, and whether there is a need to refurbish the kitchen

You were born without any apps on your phone. Hey! Guess what? You were born without any phone at all. And life was still beautiful.

we are more than can be measured. We are life itself.

Extract from "That it will never come again" by Emily Dickinson reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Lyrics from THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by David Byrne. Courtesy Index Music, Inc.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts . . .

She gestured vaguely along the aisle, towards the distance. "Death is outside." "Well, I should go there. Because I want to die." Nora began walking. But Mrs Elm shook her head. "That isn't how death works." "Why not?" "You don't go to death. Death comes to you.

Soseai pe Pamant cu talpici de bebelus, si cu o fericire infinita, apoi aceasta fericire se evapora incetisor, pe masura ce mainile si picioarele iti deveneau tot mai mari.

To Live Is to Suffer

Had we been through some trauma we didn't know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Or was life a kind of war most people didn't see?

Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be different if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

I needed books. They weren't a luxury good during that time in my life. They were a Class A addictive substance.

According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that is the real life lesson.

Avem nevoie de timpul pe care il avem deja

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there. -Camus

Betrand Russell wrote that "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead".

Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

Liebe war der Weg, ewig zu leben in einem einzigen Moment

My mum died on different dates in different lives. I'd like a life where she is still here. Does that life exist?' Mrs Elm's attention switched to Nora. 'Maybe it does.' 'Great.' 'But you can't get there.' 'Why not?' 'Because this library is about your decisions. There was no choice you could have made that led to her being alive beyond yesterday. I'm sorry.

This was the life she had been in mourning for. This was the life she had beaten herself up for not living. This was the timeline she thought she had regretted not existing in.

be part of nature was to be part of the will to live.

Why didn't you?' 'Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.

There are patterns to life . . . Rhythms. It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living. I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there

there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other.

Think of all that possibility. It's exciting.' 'Yes. I suppose it is.' 'A whole life in front of you.' 'A whole life.' 'You could do anything, live anywhere. Somewhere a bit less cold and wet.