Quotes About Life

Oh on my breast in days hereafter Light the earth should lie, Such weight to bear is now the air, So heavy hangs the sky. (Additional Poems, X)

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep Up, lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep. V

I Hoed and trenched and weeded, And took the flowers to fair: I brought them home unheeded; The hue was not the wear. So up and down I sow them For lads like me to find, When I shall lie below them, A dead man out of mind. Some seed the birds devour, And some the season mars, But here and there will flower The solitary stars, And fields will yearly bear them As light-leaved spring comes on, And luckless lads will wear them When I am dead and gone.

Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.

Good creatures, do you love your lives And have you ears for sense? Here is a knife like other knives, That cost me eighteen pence. I need but stick it in my heart And down will come the sky, And earth's foundations will depart And all you folk will die.

When I Was One-And-Twenty When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, "The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue." And I am two-and-twenty, And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here I am in hell.

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Here dead we lie Because we did not choose To live and shame the land From which we sprung. Life, to be sure, Is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, And we were young.

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness begins with life, and life begins at conception.

When you need to escape life's rough edges for a few hours, nothing could beat seeing a great film.

the antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

Había pasado por la vida en un estado de oposición y exasperación, ofendiendo y siendo ofendido sin motivo ni escrúpulos.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment — and nothing more corrupting.

nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love best, and who most do you want with you? Blithering idiots: it's life itself, can't you see? It's life I love best, and life I want with me. Go hang yourselves, all of you, you're only sapping my strength when most I need it. Leave me in peace and let me grapple.

Ne zaman ki dinledi?iniz ?ark?lar size onu hat?rlatmaz; i?te ancak o zaman hayattan bir tat alabilirsiniz .

Bir denizi, bir evi, bir a?ac? yok dü?ünebilir miyiz? ?iirin de böyle varolmas?. Bence ?iirin bu dedi?im yoldan varolmas?na en büyük engel anlamd?r. Nitekim denizin varolmas? da, onu d???m?zda dü?ünmekten vazgeçip, ya?am?m?za kar??t?rd???m?z zaman ba?lar. Bu çe?it varolmak onu anlamak istememizle ilgilidir

That's just the way it is. I'll always remember. She's forgotten.

El amor es como una planta o un animal. Vive y se desarrolla. Nace, crece, envejece y muere.

La vie nous habitue à la mort par le sommeil. La vie nous avertit qu'il existe une autre vie par le rêve.

Ma mère sait se sortir du pétrin. Ma mère fait ce qu'il y a à faire. Elle est une preuve que la vie fonctionne, même après une catastrophe.

J'étais heureuse à cet instant. C'était ce moment-là, et pas un autre. Et c'était tout ce que je pouvais espérer.