Quotes About Life

enemies on the bottoms of leaves. That's where

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy, colorful and lively.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

They make us live in the crap, and now they're taking the crap away? No!

Comedy is a very powerful component of life. It has the most to say about the human condition because if you laugh you can get by. You can struggle when things are bad if you have a sense of humor. Laughter is a protest scream against death, against the long goodbye. It's a defense against unhappiness and depression.

Hope for the best, expect the worst. Life is a play, we're unrehearsed.

Comedy is a very powerful component in life. It has the most to say about the human condition because if you laugh you can get by. You can struggle when things are bad if you have a s sense of humor. Laughter is a protest scream against death, against the long good bye. Its a defense against unhappiness and depression.

I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.

I think it's better to be a legend while ye're alive to enjoy it.

La gente parla solo per dar fiato alla lingua, e lei non ha più voglia di perdere tempo con le sciocchezze. Si è sottoposta a una terapia di disintossicazione dalle cose superflue. Mese dopo mese le cose importanti si sono rivelate sempre meno. Alla fine sono rimaste solo la salute, la libertà, la vita.

Ea poare ca nici nu isi da seama, dar i-a rupt viata in doua. L-a spintecat, asa cum fulgerul despica un copac. Din el n-a mai ramas decat trunchiul, drept si bine infipt in pamant, trunchiul retezat pe care a crescut muschiul, in care si-ai facut pasarile cuib, dar care n-a mai putut sa renasca. Pana cand si radacinile au putrezit si s-au prabusit, inaltand spre cerul care l-a pedepsit o adunatura de lemne rasucite.

In our layered experience of the world, it's possible to believe we have left behind the blunt realities of being animal. Nothing could be further from the truth. Human life may be a blend of biology and dreams, but these dreams are still animal dreams.

As it says in Ecclesiastes there is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance. The wheel has turned and the season of grief has passed. I am Lazarus resurrected from an emotional grave. Like Lazarus, I suspect I will always be aware of the grave, but still I say, let the dance of life go on.

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

Wherever he was, whatever exile he condemned her to, he knew he would hear those footsteps behind him for the rest of his life - tripping over corpses.

Age has little meaning. All you have to do to grow old is live long enough. Or fast enough.

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly. "Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories.

Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.