Quotes About Life

Uskoro je povjerovao da to što on piše nije poezija, nego nešto drugo, nešto dublje i teže opisivo; nešto što izražava njegov doživljaj života: napeto srce, suze skrivene u o?ima, osloba?aju?e bezna?e. Te su pjesme bile blues, utvrdio je Mirza, a u to nema sumnje...

Hence Joshua giggled to himself: life appeared to him exactly like the joint burning inexorably toward his fingertips—once it's smoked it cannot be unsmoked.

There are people who just live and there are people who just survive," Bega had said. "Americans live, we survive.

Hope sold, of course, and well; it was the corn syrup of existence, fast burning and addictive.

Minut može biti isto što i ceo život, ako se doživi usredsre?eno, ako se gleda pažljivo kako promi?u ku?e i prolaznici, ako se zna da se u?inilo ono što se želelo.

The pretense of life he has assumed after dodging death and saving himself, after pushing away all those hands stretched out to pull him with them-after pushing them into death. But the premonition, dodging, and flight have consumed him and robbed his life of meaning, leaving only stagnation and lies, a daze this side of death, but that side of life.

Non sento affatto il bisogno di scrivere storie di vincitori. Penso che ogni vittoria sia falsa. Vera è solo la sconfitta, perché la vita è in definitiva sempre una sconfitta, a meno che non sia, dal principio alla fine, un'illusione. E le illusioni non mi attirano.

It was this feeling which had impelled him to visit once more those places familiar to his youth, to live over again in memory those dear, painfully sweet recollections of his childhood, overshadowed with a poetical sadness, to wound his soul once more with the sweet grief of recalling that which was for ever past—the irrevocable purity and clearness of his first impressions of life.

Art extends each man's short time on earth by carrying from man to man the whole complexity of other men's lifelong experience, with all its burdens, colors and flavor.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

Kuka käsittää tämän maailman rakennusta? Ei ihmislapsi, joka on typerä ja tyhmä kuin määkivä jäärä. Mutta parasta ottaa päivä tultuansa, sallia sen mennä mentyänsä, käyköön sitten puuhun tai mäntyyn. Täällä ollaan vaan.

Silloin kuusi uhaten ravisti kihariansa kerran vielä ja kylvi alas latvastansa kimmeltävää lunta kuolevan poikansa peitteeksi, koska veren kuumassa virrassa pakeni sydämestä raitis henki ja hälveni höyrynä ilmaan.

Man's desires are greater than the earth. The end of his desires only ends with his end.

Negativity, lack, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, are perceived more and more as moral faults-worse, as a corruption at the level of our very being or bare life.

The death drive names a kind of fundamental or ontological fatigue of life as such. It is the steady undercurrent of life in all its colorful and exuberant forms. It is not the opposite of these forms, but it is present in all of them.

There is no struggle here: life is a circuitous route to death, and conservative instincts are the pavement of this route, they are one with it, indistinguishable from it. They don't "want" anything, they don't "struggle" with death, they simply do their job of making this particular circuitous path to the inanimate operative. Strictly speaking, they work at maintaining this path, and not simply at "maintaining life.

Accadono cose che sono come domande. Passa un minuto, oppure anni, e poi la vita risponde.

Perché è così che ti frega, la vita. Ti piglia quando hai ancora l'anima addormentata e ti semina dentro un'imagine, o un odore, o un suono che poi non te lo togli più. E quella lì era la felicità. Lo sopri dopo, quando è roppo tardi. E già sei, per sempre, un esule: a migliaia di chilometri da quell'immagine, da quel suono, da quell'odore. Alla deriva.

Reasons get forgotten.

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

Volevo dire che io la voglio, la vita, farei qualsiasi cosa per poter averla, tutta quella che c'è, tanta da impazzirne, non importa, posso anche impazzire ma la vita quella non voglio perdermela, io la voglio, davvero, dovesse anche fare un male da morire è vivere che voglio.

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

They settled the question, by deciding that misfortunes most commonly happen to us from our own misconduct or imprudence; but sometimes from causes independent of ourselves; that the most innocent and prudent conduct cannot always preserve us from them; and that, whether they arise from our own fault or not, trust in God softens them, and renders them useful in preparing us for a better life.

también el mundo hace sus leyes, que prescriben el bien y el mal; también tiene su evangelio, un evangelio de soberbia y de odio; y no quiere que se diga que el amor por la vida es una razón para transgredir sus mandamientos. No lo quiere; y es obedecido.