Quotes About Life

He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.

Life does not have to go how you think it will," Tomasz says. "Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen.

As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren't they?" his mother went on. "We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they're the very thing that saves us.

You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

Time goes on, even when yer not looking.

Now that I know there's more? I want to have more. If there really is more to life, I want to live all of it. And why shouldn't all of us? Don't we deserve that?

Even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice.

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

Oh, it was real, all right," she says. "We lived it; we were there. If you go through something and put up with it even if you want to get away from it more than anything in the whole world, then it was definitely bloody real.

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say. "Ah, philosophy," he smiles. "I didn't know you had it in you.

Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing the things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.

Maybe probably ain't all that comforting a word when it's maybe yer not dying.

Tu vida no la escribes con palabras —dijo el monstruo—. La escribes con acciones. Lo que piensas no es importante. Lo único importante es lo que haces.

No penséis que no habéis vivido lo bastante como para no tener una historia que contar.

But this, all this, isn't the story I'm trying to tell. This is all past. This is the part of your life where it gets taken over by other people's stories and there's nothing you can do about it except hold on tight and hope you're still alive at the end to take up your own story again. So that's what we did. Me, Mel, and Meredith all moved on, and we're the stories we're living now. Aren't we?

Without pain, it feels almost like I don't have a body at all, almost like I'm a ghost, sitting in a chair, blinded and eternal. Like I'm dead already. Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

It does not matter what you think, your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. You do not write your life with words, you write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

And still you make fun," Tomassz complains, "after I am saving your life. Again. So tell me please, your inntricate knowledge of Polish references. Yes, that would be most amusing. Long, long talk now about Polish language and the words Polish people use to feel in picturesque language." "Where did you learn English? The 1950s?

I don't know," Gudmund said. "I really don't, Sethy. But we've got now, which is more than a lot of people have, right? Let the future take care of itself.

But the Spackle War was over a long time ago, wasn't it?" "Thirteen years now." "Thirteen years where you could have righted a wrong." She finally looks at me. "Life is only that simple when you're young, my girl.