Quotes About Life

And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.

For one's past grows to a point where it is longer than one's future, and then it can become too great a burden.

Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant." "Is it only lies that are Pleasant?" "Usually. That's why people tell them. To make life bearable.

She got up from the armchair, into which she had plumped with horror, and started to bustle about the room. Jane often bustled about the room, suddenly remembering to stir her life, as though it were kept simmering on a low flame. When this was done, with nothing apparently achieved, she came back and sat by the fire, her arms clasped round her knees.

Querida señora Evans, por Dios, venga a enseñarme cómo vivir. No es que lo haya olvidado; es que nunca he sabido. Un útero no es tan importante. Es sólo la cuna de la vida, algo que tira de la luna como si fuera un cometa y hace que el mar suba y baje, suba y baje, la respiración del mundo.

Everybody is born so they can learn how to live a good life loving everybody and being nice. Animals already know how to do this, so they don't have to stay as long.

I couldn't let him have you, Jessalyn," he said, his throat raw. "I know that I am worthless, a degenerate Trelawny buried in debts. But you're all I've ever wanted out of this life, the only thing I will ever need. Without you I have no reason to live." He held his hands up to her, spreading them in supplication, and they shook as if he had an ague. "I have no pride left. You have it all.

A genuinely seismic event in American history, the Birmingham protests cleaved the nation in two, forcing citizens of all backgrounds to take honest measure of the intersection between race and democracy in national life.

I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

For atheists, everything in the world is enough and every day is holy. Every day is an atheist holiday. It's a day that we're alive.

Life speeds by and no matter how much joy there is, there is sadness.

You have no chance of scaring me with death, all the fear possible is contained in life.

According to W.H. Auden, "We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for, I don't know.

Il tempo per leggere, come il tempo per amare, dilata il tempo per vivere

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Harold Whitman

Our own private intuition is the catalyst for self-improvement and self-realization, because when it comes to making deep and lasting changes in one's personal life, it is only subjective experience, not facts, that registers as real.

Giving birth is a transformation and it doesn't matter whether you've had eight babies before. It's still a transformation the next time you have another baby, because you are no longer the same woman you were before you had that baby.

Well, life is very cruel. Very.' 'I would say', said Giles, 'it was death that was cruel. Not life.

Penny Vincenzi

Penny Vincenzi

Esta vida que vivimos no es más que confusión, no es más que una fecundidad ilimitada, y eso es demasiado. Es demasiado y no lo podemos entender. Porque no alcanzamos a ver más que nuestra pequeñez, nuestra insignificancia, y porque todo lo grande es demasiado grande.

One day we shall die. But all the other days we shall be alive.

By this he seems to have meant that acuity and spirituality were not bestowed on human beings by some higher being but were shaped by our life experiences. It was our obligations to others that gave meaning to everything, that created inner satisfaction, that gave life its purpose, and that ought to determine a person's actions.