Quotes About Life

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.

No book, no matter how sad, can be as sad as a life.

You will forget. Life is like that. Everything goes in time. Memories blur, pain diminishes. I remember my wife as one remembers a bird or a flower

And death hasn't come. It never does come when you call it. It enjoys torturing us. I've been calling for it for years and it pays me no attention

Don't be sentimental. Everything dies

Where are they now? – The dead are nowhere and everywhere

Every one of us commits a fatal mistake sometime in his life. When we realize it, the damage is already done

Je n'étais encore qu'un enfant. Mais je n'ai rien oublié. — Vous oublierez. La vie est ainsi faite.

I miei figli non giocano. Cosa fanno? Si preparano ad attraversare la vita. Dico: Io la vita l'ho attraversata e non ho trovato nulla.

Hay vidas más tristes que el más triste de todos los libros".

the moral is perhaps that intellect and being well-read have no innate value to a contented or useful life. The number of hardbacks on your bedside table is in inverse proportion to the number of arched backs in your bed.

you're always going to be too young for something important to you, too old for something else, and the timing is just not going to be right for a third set of things. That's life, and you can make yourself crazy by dwelling on that. Or you can figure out what you are the right age for, and what the timing is right for, and celebrate those things. Where do you suppose happiness lies?

Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

For the core of religion is the twinned principle of arrogance and fear. Fear of oblivion. Fear of an unfair life and an arbitrary universe. Fear of there simply being nothing, no great and grand scheme to existence. The fear, ultimately, of being powerless.

Existence is strife." "To strive is to live.

Though the gates that stand between the mortal world and the immortal Realm of Chaos are now closed to me, still I would rather die having glimpsed eternity than never to have stirred the cold furrow of mortal life. I embrace death without regret as I embraced life without fear

they had been doomed to birth and condemned to live.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive....and go do that.

Poetry does important work and that work has a bearing on real life, but I've often been stymied by the question of how poems can effect material change in a world that is, generally, not especially interested in what poetry or poets have to say.

Avoid preaching. Children's stories should be explorations of life

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

To be continued is a terrible thing, I know. But life is to be continued. You want to be continued as long as possible.

And as long as the world spins on, we can still dance. No matter who we are, we can always dance.