Quotes About Life

Right now I feel guilty to be alive. Why? Because I'm wasting it. I've been given this life and all I do is mope it away. What's worse is, I am totally aware of how ridiculous I am. It would be a lot easier if I believed I was the center of the universe, because then I wouldn't know any better not to make a big deal out of everything. I know how small my problems are, yet that doesn't stop me from obsessing about them. I have to stop doing this.

You can't hide from certain death, so you shouldn't hide from uncertain life.

Life - such as it is - always seems to get in the way

Maybe I should find comfort in the utter absurdity of life and death. I can't outwit something that only plays by one rule: It will win in the end. No matter which way I choose to move, death will always come out the victor, so I should just try to enjoy the game of life as I'm playing it.

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already dead.

Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.

he brought back to life and warns her of the beginning of a famine that

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

What God did for Jesus in standing up for Him, standing behind Him in life and in death, and in standing in communion and solidarity with Him, the Father also does for us, here and now, in our lives.

Manuelo: Have another muffin. They're still warm from the oven. Chloe: My life is a mess, Manuelo. Another muffin isn't going to help. Manuelo: It can't hurt.

I accept that people with children are having a deeper, more complex experience of being alive than I am, and this is fine with me. Raising children is one of many life experiences I'm happy to die without having had, like giving birth, going to war, spending a night in jail, or seeing Forrest Gump. If I could get through life without experiencing death, I would gladly do that, too.

People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted;

It's amazing what the living expect of the dying.

If the ultimate purpose of your life is your children, what's the purpose of your children's lives? To have your grandchildren? Isn't anyone's life ultimately meaningful in itself? If not, what's the point of propagating it ad infinitum?

The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily, La Rochefoucauld wrote.

It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity. Blessed are they who are prepared to assert that right in this very life.

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life

Some people climb mountains, others get to have heart surgery.

Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise!

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

*Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.

*We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate.