Quotes About Life

Le réel quelquefois désaltère l'espérance. C'est pourquoi, contre toute attente, l'espérance survit.

No man, unless he be dead in living, can feel at anchor in this life.

In the darkness of our lives, there is not one place for Beauty. The whole place is for Beauty.

Entre les deux coups de feu qui décidèrent de son destin, il eut le temps d'appeler une mouche : Madame.

Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught, And spent my little life without a thought, And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim, Should think of me, who never thought of him.

Is not the heart of man indeed the vase in which his life is continuously maintained by means of his blood?

Blessed are the people who are living dreams they didn't know they had. Dreams they never dreamed. Dreams that came to life because they followed their intuition

Think of the air you breathe as love. Changes everything"

This journey of life is about realizing our inherent wholeness. It has nothing to do with perfecting anything

We are here for the evolution of our soul. This evolution happens through the mangagement of both the ups and downs of physical life. Evolution is halted by pretending to be happy all the time.

You are here to be fully alive. Your expression is needed. Don't hold back

You simply cannot know the depth of your magnificence without the contrast of life.

The pressures were wrong. There was just enough money and not enough time.

None of us is leading quite the life we were at all prepared for.

There are no tears here," the young construction worker said at the funeral, when the ancient union leader, with two strokes, three heart attacks, and a lung condition, died at last. "True," the priest said, surveying the mourners in the cathedral. "No tears. Either the wake went on too long or he was a hard, hard man.

We spoke of a friend of ours who had died the night before, at forty-three. "But my God! I'm forty-one," a bearded banker said. "Don't worry," his wife, who is German, answered. "There is no order. It is not a line.

altogether too much of life is mood. Aldo

Maybe there are stories, even, like solitaire or canasta; they are shuffled and dealt, then they do or they do not come out. Or the deck falls on the floor. Or a piece of country music, a quartet, a parade, the flag—all the things one ought by now to be too old for—touch, whatever it is.

Een doel, hoe nietig ook, verschafte het leven zin en betekenis.

Niet dat ik mij niet voor alle zekerheid altijd al met een flinke dosis pessimisme gewapend heb. En wat heb ik er nu aan? Geen malle moer. Het leven is zo inconsideraat dat je net zo goed optimist kunt zijn: heb je meer plezier ook. Toch, veel samen gelukkig geweest, godverdomme. Wat een rotstreek.

Di me due libri soltanto due libri ti restano. Verrò a prenderli un giorno e ti dirò che ho girato il mondo confuso nel tuo ricordo e ho amato tutto ciò che incontravo per disperdermi: e dirò che mi hai rubato Montale e il senno in un giorno di sole.

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. Like a leaf that drank from the morning dew, you didn't question the morning sunrise or the sweet taste on your mouth. You just drank.

The guards hate the priest. To them, men like the priest paper the sky with romantic tissue-paper legends, but down here below the earth, in this enchanted place, we know life cannot be contained on a slogan or a prayer tablet. We know that kindness rules with the fist and chains rule with a turn to the sky, that all humans require penance and without it we all seek punishment, over and over again, until the body and mind are satisfied and we die.