Quotes About Life

A novel is a mirror walking down a road

As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.

The aphorism that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem is usually true. And remember, changing one's mind in midair rarely works out.

The aphorism that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem is usually true.

I feel this evening that I am too hopelessly and happily corrupted by the richness of London life to ever be right for Dorset, or vice-versa.

Frank Muir is affable. 'We're all fag ends in the gutter of life,' he replies cheerfully to my observation that the timing of success is quite unpredictable … 'One realises that all those things like talent, looks, skill and hard work really don't get you anywhere.

The hospital, like a beast with a thousand hearts, was stretching and yawning, settling into the night.

Or Einstein regenerated, living a life on top of the life he's already led, doomed by the accomplishments of his former self.

A chaos of wrinkles map his face, an entire life set there: Mexico City.

If he was dismissed and despised by the local folk in life, the economics of his immorality have called for his complete resurrection.

And my parents, whose end I can't imagine. And then, of course, me, the one trying to find a reason for living in the first place.

A story is time itself, boxed and compressed.

Someday, of course, she would light out on her own, following her own riverbed, and though we'd follow as long as she allowed, and though we trusted she'd come and go from our lives with regularity, she would also be a half memory [...]

Mark, she now could see, was destined for a life of absolute logic [...], while she, the Etch a Sketcher, thought herself destined for a life of squiggly lines.

Laughing brings out the good in food. It's good to laugh. If you don't laugh, you're going to magnify. And if you magnify, you're going to die.

Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope.

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

he seemed as right as rain when I saw him yesterday!" And that's what Pete and Joe said, too. Right as rain! And then I got to thinking. "That's how he was then," I said. "What's in your mind, Terry?" said Pete. "If he was fit as a fiddle one day, how come he was dead as a doornail the next?

Are you training your children to have the confidence to walk on the edge to save someone else? It takes a boot camp to produce a soldier. Your home should be life's boot camp. Children strong in body and spirit are not born; they are made one experience at a time.

"How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?" "All your life, son."

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.

However, even the healthiest human heart skips a beat now and then, and so does music.

It's always about the human condition. Go back to that and you'll find your story.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.