Quotes About Life

Itulah dunia Gus Miek yang sebenarnya, yang ditinggalkannya untuk beberapa bulan mungkin hanya sebagai sebuah kelengkapan lakonnya yang panjang. Agar ia tetap masih menjadi manusia, bukan malaikat.

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.

I don't jog. If I die I want to be sick.

Nunca temí morir, me daba miedo estar solo. Morir, el acto de morir no tiene en sí mismo ninguna grandeza, nada de misterioso o terrible. Es la muerte, el estar muerto, lo que aún me parece incalculable.

As goes love so goes life.

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

What I'm praying is that you will choose those beautiful possibilities over any self-annihilating alternatives. My whole life on earth has been the weaving of a single powerful spell. The best part of all my magic was loving you." (as spoken by the character Valerie Hyerman)

Your tears are muscles, hinged on wings lunar and solar. Your touch: life and death. (from poem Angel of Mercy)

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

If it wasn't for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would'a been dead or someplace screamin' in a nut house a long time ago.

Throughout my life, I've been a dreamer and a seeker, sharing my hopes of a better future for literature in Nepal. My concern is for humanity and I'm a person with optimism.