Quotes About Life

And then there was that feeling one gets in a ride to a cemetery trailing a body in a coffin-an impatience with the dead, a longing to be back home where one could get on with the illusion that not death but daily life is the permanent condition.

It was innocents who died, not those born with the strength of no illusions.

Really how life gets on is a secret, you only know your memory, and it makes its own time. The real time leads you along and you never know when it happens, the best that can be is come and gone.

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste only half of it.

Even after more than five hundred years in Heaven, Eleanor of Aquitaine still missed quarreling and dressing up. Eleanor missed strong, sweet smells. Eleanor missed feeling hot and being cold. Eleanor missed Henry. She missed life.

I am truly anxious to get on with my life.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

um desejo de voltar para casa, onde podemos continuar com a ilusão de que é a vida diária, e não a morte, a condição permanente.

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

If people bring so much courage to this world that world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

life is earnest, art is gay

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

I want a poem I can grow old in. I want a poem I can die in. -A WOMAN PAINTED ON LEAF (In a Time of Violence)

Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.

Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!

Life is knowledge, livin it is Succes!

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.