Quotes About Life

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.

The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don't bloom forever

Always choose life. A demeaned life is better than the best death.

Di mana ada kehidupan, di situ pasti ada kematian. Mati itu mudah ; hiduplah yang sulit. Semakin berat kehidupan yang dihadapi, semakin kuat keinginan untuk bertahan. Dan semakin besar ketakutan untuk mati, semakin besar pula perjuangan untuk terus hidup.

Morir es fácil; lo difícil es vivir. Y cuanto más difícil se vuelve, más fuerte es la voluntad de seguir viviendo. Y cuanto mayor es el miedo a la muerte, mayor es el esfuerzo que se hace por conservar la vida.

a bright sun darkens, a full moon wanes, a full cup overflows, and decay follows prosperity

Para un árbol, cambiar de sitio es la muerte; para un hombre, cambiar de sitio es la vida.

I portatori bravi tenevano le mani sui fianchi e si muovevano insieme, facendo oscillare la portantina al ritmo della bella e triste melodia suonata dai musici, per far capire che dietro ogni felicità si cela sempre una sofferenza.

Il nonno dimenticò che il sole, dopo aver brillato, si oscura, che la luna divenuta piena comincia a declinare, che un recipiente pieno si capovolge e che alla prosperità segue la decadenza; e commise un grave errore nel voler organizzare un grande funerale per la nonna.

Mio padre pensò che tutti gli uomini, nell'attimo prima di morire, meritano rispetto.

Se qualcuno piange vuol dire che è ancora vivo. Piangete pure, piccoli miei.

Lui è morto, ma io voglio continuare a vivere. Il grano nei campi dev'essere falciato

The dead are noble, the living worthless.

When I became a vegan in 1987, in one fell swoop I extended my life expectancy and annoyed most of the people in my life—my mom most of all.

Maybe this was the meaning of life: to live in the darkness of Plato's cave and stare endlessly into the void, but to make pancakes and watch Woody Allen movies and look at the sun coming through the skylights. Those were the comforts of not having true knowledge of the world, but of being a part of it and being amazed by it.

Curly for a couple of hours, and talked to the doctors about him. They told me that in about six months his instep and ankle bones should be broken and put in a cast so that he would be able to bend his ankle. Curly decided against this, and although it gave him much pain and he limped his way through life, he never let it interfere with his work … or, for that matter, his play.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Life is a bitch get use to her or else she will make you pay for having her.

We have one life: it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

if I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought to be, my thesis would be simply this: A good life is one that has managed to turn anxiety into hope, and fear into success. And that is what I call total virtue.

Where there is love there is life.