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Quotes About Life

Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?
~ Olaf Stapledon
I am so thankful to MOTHER for making my ordinary life extraordinary. MOTHER - Multiplied Opportunities Through Her Endless Reinvention.
~ Unknown
I still look back with pleasure on the first scenes of my life, though that pleasure has been for the most part mingled with sorrow.
~ Unknown
Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man.
~ Unknown
Efter midnat, naar epidemien har sejret totalt, og byen med alle sine senge er de søvnsyges hospital, Der kan leves i disse timer inden morgengryet, men ingen tænker på det, alle sover.
~ Unknown
Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.
~ Unknown
Metaphors help you boil down the complications and ambiguities of your too-long life into a picture book. They help you lie to yourself
~ Unknown
No. No risk, no failure. And without failure you're not really human. You're just skating on the surface of life.
~ Unknown
It can be because in each man's life there are only a few women who can turn him inside out, who can cripple him with a smile. These are weaknesses, but they're also a sign of humanity. Without these flaws, a man doesn't really live.
~ Unknown
Tragedy plus time isn't comedy,
~ Unknown
There are moments in your life when you feel the weight of your stupidity as an unbearable thing. You hardly believe that the thoughts you've had and the beliefs you've held are actually your own, yet they have been, and you know, with the full certainty of religious conviction, that you are flawed in a deep and terrible way.
~ Unknown
been waiting all my life to meet you? Well, it applies to children. First as babies, but particularly once they've gotten old enough to have well-defined characters. It's completely true—you realize that you really have been waiting all your life to meet this person. There's nothing to compare to it.
~ Unknown
what doesn't begin with love and death and end in loneliness?
~ Unknown
Vivíamos para resistir, y resistíamos para vivir.
~ Unknown
We were sorry for them, for such deaths were really horrible; yet we envied them, too. They had found the courage to reject a life which no longer merited the name.
~ Unknown
They had found the courage to reject a life which no longer merited the name.
~ Unknown
Everything will pass. The wise Man knows this from the start, and has no regrets.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It's clear that the largest things are contained in the smallest. There can be no doubt about it. At this very moment, as I write, there's a planetary configuration on the table, the entire Cosmos if you like: a thermometer, a coin, an aluminum spoon and a porcelain cup. A key, a cell phone, a piece of paper and a pen. And one of my gray hairs, whose atoms preserve the memory of the origins of life, of the cosmic Catastrophe that gave the world its beginning.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
The best place for this kind of training is Holland where people, convinced of their utter innocence, do not use curtains. After dusk the windows turn into little stages on which actors act out their evenings. Sequences of images bathed in yellow, warm light are the individual acts of the same production entitled 'Life'. Dutch painting. Moving lives.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
zrozumia?am, ?e smutek jest wa?nym s?owem w definicji ?wiata. Le?y u podstaw wszystkiego, jest pi?tym ?ywio?em, kwintesencj?.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Ludzie my?l?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? zwierz?ta, ni? rosliny, a tym bardziej - ni? rzeczy. Zwierzeta przeczuwaj?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? ro?liny i rzeczy. Ro?liny ?ni?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? rzeczy. A rzeczy trwaj?, i to trwanie jest bardziej ?yciem ni? cokolwiek innego.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
To wielka tajemnica, ?e ka?de wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie ?ywotne si?y
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Constellation, not sequencing, carries truth. This is why travel psychology envisions man in equivalently weighted situations, without trying to lend his life any—even approximate—continuity. Life is made up of situations. There is, of course, a certain inclination toward the repetition of behaviors. This repetition does not, however, mean that we should succumb in our imaginations to the appearance of any sort of consistent whole.
~ Olga Tokarczuk