Quotes About Life

Tesko onome kome dukate u kesi pojedu bakrenjaci i kome noc pojede dane.

Always remember - you work because you don't know how to live. If you knew how to live, you would not work, and science wouldn't exist for you. But everybody taught us only how to work, not how to live. I don't know how to live either.

Ima istina kojima ?ovek pomaže da umru—re?e ona—i sam ?ovek je istina koja umire.

Leander: "I've been dead for three days now. And you?

La vita umana è una strana cosa: la meta non si trova alla fine, bensì a metà strada; corri, ma forse hai oltrepassato da tempo il segno d'arrivo senza sapere, senza accorgerti che l'hai fatto né quando, e forse non lo saprai mai. Perciò continui a correre.

Postupci u ?ove?ijem životu su poput jela, a misli I ose?anja kao za?ini. Ne?e dobro pro?i onaj ko posoli trešnje ili sir?etom zalije kola?...

Walachia, where, Satan claimed, every man is born a poet, lives like a thief, and dies a vampire.

The death of the child is always a model for the death of the parent. A mother gives birth in order to give life to her child; a child dies in order to shape the death of its father.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.

E já não era jovem. A gente sente isso quando as complicações se somam, as respostas se esquivam das perguntas.

Quando alguém permanece um bom tempo calado, se não estiver dormindo deve estar pensando no amor ou na morte".

No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.

a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

Sunja-ya, a woman's life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It's better to expect it, you know. You're becoming a woman now, so you should be told this. For a woman, the man you marry will determine the quality of your life completely. A good man is a decent life, and a bad man is a cursed life—but no matter what, always expect suffering, and just keep working hard. No one will take care of a poor woman—just ourselves.

Life makes you pay...everybody pays something

He was suffering, and in a way, he could manage that; but he had caused others to suffer, and he did not know why he had to live now and recall the series of terrible choices that had not looked so terrible at the time. Was that how it was for most people?

People are awful. Drink some beer." Haruki

All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer—suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother—die suffering. Go-saeng—the word made her sick.

His Presbyterian minster father had believed in a divine design, and Mozasu believed that life was like this game where the player could adjust the dials yet also expect the uncertainty of factors he couldn't control. He understood why his customers wanted to play something that looked fixed but which also left room for randomness and hope.

What surprised him was that as he felt closer to death, he felt the terror of death, its very finality. There were so many things he had failed to do. There were even more things he should never have done.

Etsuko had failed in this important way—she had not taught her children to hope, to believe in the perhaps-absurd possibility that they might win. Pachinko was a foolish game, but life was not.

If you do well at anything, you gotta pay up to all the people who did worse. On the other hand, if you do badly, life makes you pay a shit tax, too. Everybody pays something.