Quotes About Life

Breaking hips is for old people," Gertie said. "I have decided that I am middle-aged." "Ha!" Ida Belle said. "Middle-aged for what, a tortoise?

Psychiatrists do not nag. We're licensed to tell you the best way to live your life. You people just refuse to listen.

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

Life is an absolute Dream... then I wake up.

We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment--for the remedying of social ills.

We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life's very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...

It is part of the great spiritual riches of the Russian that, because he sees or rather feels things living from the inside (imperfective) he sees or rather feels things whole (asyndeta). It is a corollary from his living into things, for life is durée unanalysed, undistributed. These asyndeta , these bits of life so closely bound together that they refuse conjunctions, are countless in Russian, specially in epic and peasant Russian.

He dies because he is so holy, that he may give his holiness, his strength, his life, just at the moment it is holiest, to his people.

If I could have my life over again, I would devote it not to art or literature, but to language. Life itself may hit one hard, but always, always one can take sanctuary in language. Language is as much an art and as sure a refuge as paint¬ ing or music or literature. It reflects and interprets and makes bearable life; only it is a wider, because more subconscious, life.

He must live again, he should, he did.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

It's never to late- never to late to change your life,never to late to be happy

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

Memory changed for both Edward and Elisabeth. There were fewer people now to keep it alive.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother