Quotes About Life

Sí, vam decidir esperar i de tant fer-ho el temps se'ns en va anar de les mans.

Passa un segon com passa tota una vida quan passem la vida esperant una llum que triga.

Quiero que recuerdes una cosa, y que se la recuerdes a ella si en algún momento las cosas no van bien. Grábatela en la cabeza, Fer. Te ayudará ahora y si llegas a viejo entenderás que tengo razón, porque solo los supervivientes entendemos que la vida no es lo que es, sino lo que sentimos al recordarla.

Ma, sai, se c'è una cosa che la vita mi ha insegnato è che aspettare ciò che non accadrà mai è una morte troppo orribile.

Llevar un vientre entre las caderas es mero destino. Llevar una cabeza sobre los hombros es una responsabilidad.

Si en estos países se moría por pasiones que me fueran incomprensibles, no por ello era la muerte menos muerte.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.

We are never as beautiful as now. The crushing sadness of hotel rooms; the gelid lights and clean notepads; the blank walls and particles of someone else's erased life.

What you see is what you see, but that is never everything. Sarajavo is Sarajevo whatever you see or don't see. America is America. The past and future exist without you. And what you don't know about me is still my life. What I don't know about you is still your life. Nothing at all depends on you seeing it or not seeing it. I mean, who are you? You don't have to see or know everything.

It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life.

If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living.

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

And did the biblical Lazarus have a mother? What did she do when he was resurrected? Did he bid her good-bye before he returned to his undeath? Was he the same son to her undead as he was alive? I read that he sailed to Marseilles with his sisters afterward, where he may or may not have died again.

One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.

So you are Catholic? Didn't know that. I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do.

Man reaches a point in his life when unchanging becomes a matter of pride; the habits and remnants of youth are thereafter kept in the museum of the self.

It never ends, Pinya says. Every time, you think maybe this here is a different world, but it's all the same: they live, we die. So here it is again.

I know as well as anybody how hard it is to live after a grave loss. But life needs to go on, it must never stop. It is our duty to keep life going.

God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?

We are within our life and we stay there for as long as possible, that's our home. We need life. There is too much death already, and there is probably more coming our way.

What is life? This is no life. Who wants this life? The dead leave it to us to struggle in this world. They go elsewhere, wherever it is, and wait for God to sort it all out. But we have to stay here, no matter how hard it is. Nobody can be alone. Life is the life of others. My life, your life, that is nothing.

I think it is about life. I think there is always more life than death. Those who lived are always alive for someone. Those who are alive remember life, not death. And when you are dead nothing happens. Death is nothing.

You have to create a form from the life that exists, not the other way around. If it comes out in these little pieces, that's what it is.