Quotes About Life

When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions you craft from the memory.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

life. I would have given anything to live in a grand house like this. But God didn't see fit to answer those prayers. Turns out He had something much better in store for me, and that something was Quentin.

FR : Nous méritons toutes nos rencontres,  elles sont accordées à notre destin et ont une signification qu'il nous appartient de découvrir EN : We deserve all our encounters, they are granted to our destiny and have a significance it behooves us to discover

Dying means: you are dead already, in an immemorial past, of a death which was not yours, which you have thus neither known nor lived, but under the threat of which you believe you are called upon to live; you await it henceforth in the future, constructing a future to make it possible at last - possible as something that will take place and will belong to the realm of experience.

La pression de la ville : de toutes parts. Les maisons ne sont pas là pour qu'on y demeure, mais pour qu'il y ait des rues et, dans les rues, le mouvement incessant de la ville.

I feel myself dead – no; I feel myself, living, infinitely more dead than dead.

The feeling of the uselessness of what I am doing is linked to this other feeling that nothing is more serious.

On voit que Marcel Bealu se sert des images du sommeil pour nous mettre aux prises avec le sentiment d'énigme qui est pour quelques-uns le sentiment fondamental de l'existence. (p. 594)

As long as I live, I am a mortal man, but when I die, by ceasing to be a man I also cease to be mortal, I am no longer capable of dying, and my impending death horrifies me because I see it as it is: no longer death but the impossibility of dying.

They do not think of death, having no other relation but with death.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Los días vividos, pletóricos o vacíos, tranquilos o agitados, son todos por igual días pasados, y la ceniza del pasado pesa lo mismo en todas las manos.

Youth fills the time to come with imagination; old age relives the past through memory. The two things are equivalent.

Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same in every hand. Had

Chaque homme, parce qu'il croît un peu que le monde est né en même temps que lui, souffre, au moment de quitter la vie, de laisser l'univers inachevé. À plus forte raison un roi. (Le roi de fer, partie 3, ch. 9, p. 350)

Il n'y pas de mort. Je peux fermer les yeux, j'aurai mon paradis dans les coeurs qui se souviendront.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.

But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more.

For what are in reality the things we call 'Wisdom,' 'Virtue,' 'Heroism,' 'sublime hours,' and 'great moments of life,' but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; …