Quotes About Life

Life is not only an organization for survival; there is in life a prodigious flourishing of forms, the utility of which is only rarely attested to and that sometimes even constitutes a danger for the animal...Adaptation is not the canon of life, but a particular realization in the tide of natural production...It can be perfectly argued that life is not uniquely submitted to the principle of utility, and that there is a morphogenesis in the design of expression.

One does not love a person, one does not love a body, one loves a life established in a body.

Ambiguity is essential to human existence, and everything we live or think always has several senses.

All zoology assumes from our side a methodical Einfühlung into animal behavior, with the participation of the animal in our perceptive life and the participation of our perceptive life in animality.

So we have to work in the midst of life, surrounded by all the misfortunes of life, and eventually life becomes our teacher—that is to say, we have to practise non-identifying in the midst of the happenings of life; we have to practise self-remembering in the midst of affairs; and we have to notice and separate ourselves from our negative emotions in the midst of all hurts and smarts in daily life.

The destruction of psychological Truth by literal truth is the continual drama of human life.

To change one's life is not to change outer circumstances: it is to change one's reactions.

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy ' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...

Meseems I feel his presence. Is he dead? Death is a word. He lives and grander grows.

One day you're breaking hearts, and then you blink and it's decades gone and your heart attacks you.

No existo porque pienso ni pienso porque existo. Pensar es cierto, existir es un mito. Yo no existo, vivir –lo que se dice vivir– sólo los que no piensan. Los que se ponen a pensar no viven." --Dos Crímenes Barrocos, Max Aub, Crímenes Ejemplares--

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

Life is a muddle. It seems a brilliant muddle, if you are an optimist; a dull one, if you aren't; but in neither case can you deny that it is the muddlers who keep it going.

But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

Death, as he had said, cancelled all engagements.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

The unforgettable thing in his life is usually not a thing he has done or left undone, but a thing done to him—some insolence or cruelty for which he could not, or did not, avenge himself.

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.

the parents are the first problem a child comes up against, the first resistance he has to assert himself against; his arguments with them are the model for all his later fights in life.