Quotes About Life

He did not enjoy the sorrow, but he would not have missed the years that he and Joseph were friends, either. Such joy was worth a little sorrow.

Just then Warren's breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?

All things die, Mercy. Some just takes longer than others. (Charles)

There is no life without death.

Don't mourn us until we're dead. ~ Samuel

Whether those lives are a couple of decades or a couple of centuries long, living means that we get hurt, and some of those wounds don't heal or they don't heal completely.

they understand what I am and do not die

Take Carnwennen as the means. Your mate's life as the reason. Our geas as the cost. True love your reward. Remind her of the Wild Hunt.

identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

Do not go gentle into that good night,' Samuel. 'Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Life's but a walking shadow,' Mercy, 'a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.' " He countered my Dylan Thomas with Shakespeare

Accept some responsibility for your own life, I panted, finally. You could have stayed sitting in the middle of the road. You chose to come with us.

Livin's easier than dyin' most times, Mercy girl," he said kindly, repeating my foster father's favorite saying. "Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come.

And, as his father liked to say, identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

I have noticed that people who listen to their instincts live longer.

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. (Hao)

In the experience is the emotion. In the emotion is the gift.

She said that time and death are the greatest enemies all of us must face, and the only weapon stronger than they are is love.

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

Life is not meant to be easy, child. That is why we pray for God's strength to help us bear it.

I waste my life. I want to. It's the thing to do with a life. We were wrong about work--it isn't the best thing, no matter how much you love it. Wasting time is better.

Life is a journey. A hopeless cliché. But not its fault. Cliché is the fate of every fully absorbed truth. The stars, for example, do look like diamonds. You just can't say so.

But by the time you've worked long enough, hard enough, Real Life (which insists on being capitalized as if it were a personage with a proper name and a right to barge into this rental unit called your life) begins to reveal itself as something other than effort, other than accomplishment. Real Life wishes to be left to its own purposeless devices.

the final page of any novel is a destination, the creation of form offering the illusion of inevitability, the denial of chaos. We don't love novels because they are like life, but because they are unlike it—deftly organized, filled with the satisfaction of shape.