Quotes About Life

That's what makes life so fantastic," Rin continued. "Most don't know what tomorrow will bring, but there's always the guarantee of change.

Our) thoughts feelings, and loves are a whirlwind. Everywhere life is rushing insanely like a cavalry charge. . . . Everything around a man jumps, dances, gallops in a movement out of phase with his own.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.

Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces and gardens of death. And the universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden… What I say today, and what I heard, exists and cries and howls beyond this garden, which is no more than a symbol to me of the entire earth.

For to arrive somewhere means to die!

Look here, before you and around you! There is not a grain of sand that has not been bathed in blood, and what is that grain of sand itself, if not the dust of death? But how rich this blood is, and how fertile is the dust!

why can't I do what others have done—ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world.

Your people contain incredible potential, but they die without using much of it.

All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God

Intelligence is relatively new to life on Earth, but your hierarchical tendencies are ancient.

Here we are— Energy, Mass, Life, Shaping life, Mind, Shaping Mind, God, Shaping God. Consider— We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.

Did she struggle for life only out of habit, or because some part of her still hoped that there was something worth living for?

Life alone is enough. I find it … more exciting and encouraging than I can explain, more important than I can explain. There is life out there. There are living worlds just a few light years away, and the United States is busy drawing back from even our nearby dead worlds, the moon and Mars. I understand why they are, but I wish they weren't.

Mars is a rock - cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it's heaven in a way. We can see it in the night sky, a whole other world, but too nearby, too close within the reach of the people who've made such a hell of life here on Earth.

All successful life is Adaptable, Opportunistic, Tenacious, Interconnected, and Fecund. Understand this. Use it. Shape God.

Consider-- We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.

Death Is a great Change— Is life's greatest Change. We honor our beloved dead. As we mix their essence with the earth, We remember them, And within us, They live.

What is it?" she asked. "Flesh. More like mine than like yours. Different from mine, too, though. It's … the ship." "You're kidding. Your ship is alive?

Yet God has been here all along, shaping us and being shaped by us in no particular way or in too many ways at once like an amoeba—or like a cancer. Chaos.

Power came the way a child came -- with agony.

Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom.

I would like to give them a grove of oak trees, I said. Trees are better than stone- life commemorating life.

They consider it a sin to take any life, yet they kill and kill.