Quotes About Life

you are my life now. this"_he waved a hand dismissively around him at the club-"the fey, everything, it all falls into place once you accept me" -kennan

To nie choroba czy ?mier? wprowadzaj? nas do raju. To muzyka.

You have a choice. A life of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way. You choose.

We live in a world of increasing alienation, where meeting the right person for life grows harder and harder. Why would we want to spend our free time reading about this grim reality? I have spent many happy months escaping into the writing of my feel-good world of Happy Ever Afters. And what is wrong with that? It makes people feel good. I'm not selling anyone a lie.

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer, more explicit language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings exist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated." He went even further: "The language, too

Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then that would be a life which take every ounce of her strength. She wanted no less. She loved to see the shapes and strokes of line and turn them into words: she loved the idea of battling against enemies external and internal and all her will being consumed in that battle.

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Whom the gods love dies young.

There is no pleasure of life sprouting like a tree from one root but there is some pain joined to it; and again nature brings good out of evil.

Before colonels commanded or astronauts flew, they were nearly forty! They told you all these things you could be, but the truth of it was that when you wanted it you couldn't have it, and when you got it, you were old and boring like everybody else. It quenched ambition

Such is life. Sometimes we do not even want to know how much pain we cause others, for fear of spoiling our own petty pleasures. And when the time comes to face the consequences, it is too late to be sorry.

John Maynard Keynes (d. 1946) felt similarly wistful, noting, "I should have drunk more champagne.

Ningú no neix per viure entre reixes.

La vida és alegre o trista, segons com la miris. De vegades penses que no saps viure. O t'imagines que n'hi ha que són feliços i aleshores tot els sembla més bonic: potser un dia o altre et tocarà.

Pujava olor d'aigua de riu com si fos l'aigua mateixa que visqués enlaire i que només sabia passar pel seu camí de vena.

Tots ho van voler. Ho van fer expressament. Els feia falta per viure perquè s'avorrien. Les cares de tots eren cares de gent que voldrien coses sense saber ben bé quines són les coses que voldria, però que en vol sigui com sigui.

I tot el que quedaria, potser, seria només un senyal de peus molls damunt la terra per on hauria fugit corrent; d'aquells peus que s'enduien al damunt una cosa tendra i tèbia que m'hauria ajudat a viure i a dormir i a respirar...

Men who do things are men who are already dead.

La mort va fugir pel cor i quan ja no vaig tenir la mort a dintre em vaig morir...

Hi ha gent que amb un record, en té per tota una vida.