Quotes About Life

In the early hours of April 18, Einstein's world line reached its final point- life's ultimate singularity.

They felt the need to go beyond Atheism, which simply denies the existence of a personal creator God and takes no positive positions about how we should live our lives or how we should feel about the Universe/Nature.

The day before yesterday we were atoms in the heart of a burning star - yesterday we were dust in a collapsing proto-star - today we are living humans - tomorrow we may be soil, beetles, grass, trees, birds.

Some men live free in this life, only to face an eternal prison in hell. You're in prison in this life, but from today your names have been written in heaven and you are free!

I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." John 12:24–25.

One perception of the way he lived his life has always had the capacity to stir up complex things, to make us uneasy, defensive, secretly troubled about our own less glamorous and more sedentary lives. A characteristic Hemingway letter: the streams of loose syntax, the blunt emotion. The way I see all this is that part of what we do in this life is conscious. And the rest of it is unconscious. Maybe this is the best we can ever say.

Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

When he said someone had 'died", Erd?s meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

Thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.

I know everything I know about.

A vida é como um lago para onde uma criança ociosa atira uma pedrinha e, a partir desse ato, as ondas espalham-se para o exterior. Errado. A vida é um ribeiro: não uma torrente de água a galgar as margens, apenas um ribeirinho vulgar e insignificante, com os redemoinhos, turbilhões e vórtices normais [...]

LIFE is like a pond into which an idle child drops a pebble and from that act the ripples spread outward. Wrong. Life is a stream and not a stream in spate, just an ordinary piddling sort of stream with its routine eddies, whirls and no-account vorticles.

The wish of all things is to continue to be what they are. --Spinoza

J.M. Barrie was right; it is an awfully big adventure!

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

But we cannot choose what we remember and what we forget. All the lovely bright moments of our lives get forgotten except for remnants here and there, like the leaves blown from a tree in the autumn, and the terrible things, they stick with us forever, as bright and raw as the day they happened.

He liked having the boy there beside him. Like some bright flame of life still burning bright beside the spent lamp of his own spirit.

What do they be teaching the young these days? I declare, they think more on machines and formulas than they do on the true knowledge of the world. They blow things up, and call it progress. They kills one another by the million, and calls it civilization... But you takes a single life, just one, and that is murder most foul, and they will pin you for that, and lay it against you the rest of your life. It hardly seems fair.

I bet if big fat Henry hadn't been king, he wouldn't have had so many wives. He was a wicked man, but sad too, I suppose. How awful, to never find someone you could truly love, so you are always looking for her your whole life. And cutting people's heads off when they turn out to be the wrong one.

Apart from God, life is empty and unsatisfying. D

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.