Quotes About Life

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for

I hear it" Antonio whispered. "I hear you wanting . That's your heart. That's life. That's being alive.

Is it a good life or a bad one? The answer doesn't matter. It's the only life we have.

The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and the bride, who would be dead soon. It watched approvingly, appreciating the complexities—and fragilities—of life.

Pero el relato -el hecho de relacionar acontecimientos y personas en una historia- es precisamente lo que da sentido a la existencia humana.

The Buddhists are right -- and so is Kundera -- this lightness of being is perfectly unbearable. Who can accept the idea of having only one life?

Je lis de mieux en mieux et de plus en plus vite, je lis comme si ma vie en dépendait, lire est mon seul et unique talent, si on me disait, que je n'ai plus le droit de lire j'aurais une crise d'apoplexie et j'en mourrais." (Lignes de faille)

Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough." There

Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.

As late as 1842, "squatter" was still considered a "term, denoting infamy of life or station," of a lesser rank than the class-neutral "settler.

It was funny in a way, but only in the unhumorous way anything recent was funny. In another 80 years, maybe she would find it hilarious.

Listening to things that are not true is the first step toward ultimate bondage and death. That

Brokenness is not a feeling or an emotion. Rather it requires a choice, an act of will...not a one time experience, but an ongoing constant way of life. A lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life-not as everyone else thinks it is, but as He knows it to be.

Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.

am talking about much more than carnal love. You are his rest when he is weary; his joy when he is low; his quiet song when his ears are filled with human pleas and blandishments. What purpose do you serve? You give the King life.

Take what comes and live without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is woman's gift; death is God's.'

every man must die. I do not think about it. It is what we do in life that matters.

The experience of speaking from the heart and being taken seriously builds the psychic architecture that supports the capacity to bear life.

In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.

My candle burns at both ends;   It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—   It gives a lovely light!

It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poetic gestures when they were younger and had since settled back into buffoonery.

But it was not her beauty that was arresting. It was her style, a sort of insolence toward life, her total lack of caution, her fearless and abundant pride.

The men came from every imaginable economic and social level of American life, "men who were better dressed in their uniforms than ever before in their lives," as Zelda wrote later, "and men from Princeton and Yale who smelled of Russian Leather and seemed very used to being alive…." The larger world that Zelda dreamed of was at her doorstep and accessible.

A vida é por vezes triste e muitas vezes aborrecida mas de vez em quando há groselhas no bolo.»