Quotes About Life

about one's life; memories are unreliable—they smudge, and fade, like disappearing footprints in the sand. We're too busy standing in the middle of it all to remember everything perfectly

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

To live is to fight.

Patricia B. McConnell

I am to be cured, now that summer is finished Harvested of my sickness, re-arranged for winter. Seven devils are not easily banished Nor the knot of blindness loosened by a quick knife. Outside, ignored, the July evenings saunter, I have turned back to my room, waiting for my life, Trying to recollect how the white drug fell Clogging my veins in an avalanche of sleep - Life Story

My mother who died young In an outlandish rhythm Would have been seventy now And perhaps dead in funeral time. So I may start to mourn As I would celebrate The first or second birthday Of a still-born baby. - Out of Season

Between the illness and the cure there is a strange realm Peopled by ignorant subjects who want and do not want The sword of sanity and the elm Stake that scotches the vampire. - Life Story

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopeless a thing as it might have been.

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct--Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he'd take over the world--my life, if I let him." ~Mercy

Zack shook his head. "I am glad you aren't mine. You're going to be dead before you're forty." "No," rumbled my husband's soft deep voice from the hallway. "I'm going to be dead before she's forty.

That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me." I nodded toward the mess. "And if you knew my life, you'd realize just how freaky that is.

I jerked my chin toward Frost's body. 'All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.' Hao said, "Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else." Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment.

Death is not to be feared. Death is easy. It is living that is brutal.

Love," he said, "is always a risk, isn't it? I've always thought that there were no certainties in life, but I was wrong. Love is a certainty. And love always gives more than it takes.

Death is part of life," he told her. "Without the one, it is hard to have the other.

Truth has many facets. Choose the ones that make her happy to be alive instead of the ones that make her want to smack you.

Take happiness where you can," he said. "It seldom lasts—'course, neither does sorrow, right?

This isn't quite chemical castration, but it will bring your life into balance," she said, and she was off on her sales pitch as if the phrase "chemical castration" was a common concept—and something one might consider doing to one's husband. And she looked like such a nice, normal person.

Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.

Fewer people die when you are around. These are the facts. Being upset about them don't make them false.

Humans, in her experience, were weak and fragile things prone to dying and breeding with about the same frequency.

Adam leaned down to Paul. "That edge you lost in your fight with Mary Jo is what allowed me to take the time to find something that would hurt you instead of kill you. You can thank her for your life.