Quotes About Life

El pasado siempre se ve mejor cuando uno lo recuerda, de lo que le pareció en su momento. Y el presente jamás se ve tan bueno como parecerá en el futuro. Si uno pasa demasiado tiempo reviviendo viejas alegrías, llega a ser deprimente. Se llega a pensar que jamás volverá a vivir tan bien.

Violating the boundaries between life and art to make their material their own was a dangerous way for these filmmakers to work. It was successful for a while, enriching both the life and the art, but as the two became more extravagant and interchangeable, New Hollywood directors lost the detachment of artists, and their lives and art sank into quicksand, joined in a fatal embrace.

My strong opinion is that you should continue on with life as normally as you can, no matter what kind of tumor you have.

There's relief in the ritual and routine. Seeing the same faces, making the same stops. He's getting through life minute by minute these days—scrounging for reasons to keep going.

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

Finding these ancient artifacts always gave him a chill. They reminded him how small and insignificant he was. Even how small and insignificant his misery was—merely one clipped scream among the barrage of screams and long, keening wails that comprised all of human life on earth from the first mortal forward.

Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.

Yet when Raphaël envies their life of wild abandon, Aquilina's response is sobering: " 'Happy!' said Aquilina with a smile of pity, or terror, in giving the two friends a horrible look. 'Oh! You don't know what it's like to be condemned to pleasure with death in your heart.

Wisdom not only comes with suffering: when it comes, it is radically unusable. (Brooks' comment on the Oedipus tragedy)

Balzac knew intuitively the need for invented persons to represent life for us, with an enhanced sense of the odds and stakes of life. Representation for Balzac always touched on the theatrical, offering life bathed in starker, more revealing light.

everything," Balzac claims, "is a mosaic.

Like Raphaël de Valentin, recounted in his brief, flaming trajectory between desire and death, Chabert, the specter of the suppressed past, is one of the key mythic presences in The Human Comedy. His life story represents more than itself.

The stories we create to understand ourselves become the narratives of our lives, explaining the accidents and choices that have brought us where we are: what I'm good at, what I care about most, and where I'm headed.

What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know...I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people.

New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it's not, it's like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they're one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.

I like life. I would not want to live forever, but for a little while, life is fine.

You're so intent on making your life impossible. It doesn't bode well. Life is difficult enough, you know.

Ho solo diciotto anni. Come faccio a sapere cosa vorrò nella vita? Come faccio a sapere cosa mi servirà?

Se nella mia vita quella donna fosse stata destinata a diventare importante? Credo che sia questo a farmi paura: la casualità di tutto. Persone che per te potrebbero essere importanti ti passano accanto e ne vanno. E tu farai altrettanto. Come si fa a saperlo? ..... Andandomene mi sembrava di abbandonarlo, di passar la vita, giorno dopo giorno, a abbandonare la gente.

What a torture to hear that a life had been available to me that I had not been man enough to live.

Fate offers sweet melons to some, sour melons to others,

I saw an advertisement the other day for the secret of life. It said 'The secret of life can be yours for twenty-five shillings. Sent to Secret of Life Institute, Willesden.' So I wrote away, seemed a good bargain, secret of life, twenty-five shillings. And I got a letter back saying, 'If you think you can get the secret of life for twenty-five shillings, you don't deserve to have it. Send fifty shillings for the secret of life.