Quotes About Life

Jos vaikuttaa siltä, että mutkittelen tai harhailen, muista, että oikeat tarinat valitsevat harvoin lyhimmän tien.

Podia - Disse Kvothe, com ar sério -, mas não fiz. Fiz uma escolha e me arrependo dela até hoje. Os ossos se consolidam. O arrependimento fica com a gente para sempre.

Of course," Kvothe said grandly. "Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

sound of a man who is waiting to die.

No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I

that concerns itself overmuch with the turning of the world?

Cuando vives en la calle, o desarrollas una sensibilidad especial para detectar ciertas cosas, o tu vida está condenada a ser breve y desgraciada.

To ash all things return, so too this flesh will burn.

We Ruh are travelers. Our lives are composed of meetings and partings with brief, bright acquaintances in-between. - Kvothe

I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

Cuando alguien te cuenta un trozo de su vida, te está haciendo un regalo, y no dándote lo que te debe.

Las historias reales pocas veces toman el camino más recto.

And, of course, the grand failures are as entertaining as the great successes.

Es como la vida misma [...]. Nos gustan las cosas dulces, pero necesitamos las amargas.

En los meses de primavera todo está demasiado lleno de vida. En verano, está demasiado fuerte y no hay manera de soltarlo. El otoño... El otoño es el momento idóneo. En otoño todo está cansado y más dispuesto a morir.

I assumed the girl was a passenger like myself. She was my age, perhaps a year older, but a year makes a great deal of difference at that time of life. The Tahl have a saying about children of our age. The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.

Isn't that the way of the world? we want the sweet things but we need the unpleasant ones".

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I

I am. We are. She is. He was. They will be.

true stories seldom take the straightest way.

The words struck a chord in me. They were the same words that Ben had used a hundred times as he drilled me endlessly in argument. His words came back, admonishing me: What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

Its a horrible thing to have your body failure, you never think about it when you are young

if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city - even if it was just the door to a shared toilet - if this one, most essential freedom was taken away from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead.

And even knowing that to possess that scent he must pay the terrible price of losing it again, the very possession and the loss seemed to him more desirable than a prosaic renunciation of both. For he had renounced things all his life. But never once had he possessed and lost.