Quotes About Life

She means like - we're here to be here. To live. that's why you lived, Bridge. You lived to live. Just like everyone else.

But Bridge understood that life didn't balance anymore. Life was a too-tall stack of books that had started to lean to one side, and each new day was another book on top.

Look, I know Mom talks about the big picture. She wants you to remember that you'll find new friends, that life is always changing, sometimes in really good ways. But life is also what's happening now, Georges.

It made no sense to live in Cumbria and fail to make full use of the opportunities it provided.

Simmy entertained slippery thoughts about identity and the meaning of any individual's span on earth. When it came right down to it, she supposed that all a person really amounted to was the sum of their memories.

Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

But who has time to write memoirs? I'm still living my memoirs.

Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

I never did thank you for saving my life," she whispered. "Leaving you there would have been like my own death," he answered in a rough voice.

It is always dangerous to view our collective lives without the benefit of history or without regard to diversity among us.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Dying is no big deal; the least of us will manage it. Living is the trick.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

There is always a cause, but not always a because. And even when there is, the dead are beyond its reach or caring.

Retired people don't so much die as they let themselves fall asleep a bit at a time. They become passive and inactive and they forget they're alive.

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

You're drinking in the joy of life,' Bear told her when she tried to explain why she was laughing. 'There's so much opportunity for drinking deeply of it, and we very rarely do it. When you do, it makes you feel alive all over.

He'd tried a life separated from God, and it was no way to live. He'd rather be a son who was chastened than a stranger who was ignored.