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Quotes About Life

Because that is what it means to be alive, on this infinitesimally spinning planet. It means you have cares. Doesn't it?
~ Kate DiCamillo
Sometimes there are no reasons. Often, most of the time, there are no reasons. The world cannot be explained.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Inside the magic globe that Florence Nightingale carries, there are wishes and hopes and love. And all of these things are very tiny and also very bright. And there are thousands of wishes and hopes and love things, and they move around in the magic globe, and that's what Florence uses to see by. That is how she sees soldiers who have fallen on the battlefield of life.
~ Kate DiCamillo
He'll be dead soon. He can't live', said the father. But reader, he did live. This is the story.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away. Where, for instance, were his brothers now? He did not know; he could not say. Madam
~ Kate DiCamillo
Did Rob make it?" Sistine asked Willie May. "He did," said Willie May. "It looks alive. Is it like your bird that you let go?
~ Kate DiCamillo
If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.
~ Kate DiCamillo
His rat soul longed inexplicably for it; he began to think that light was the only thing that gave life meaning, and he despaired that there was so little of it to be had.
~ Kate DiCamillo
THE DAYS PASSED. THE SUN ROSE and set and rose and set again and again. Sometimes the
~ Kate DiCamillo
I ain't learned a thing. Not one thing. Except that there ain't nothing in this world that can't happen. That's it. That's the whole of it.
~ Kate DiCamillo
But Clarence probably had cares. Because that is what it means to be alive on this infinitesimally spinning planet. It means you have cares. Doesn't it?
~ Kate DiCamillo
If he was dead, well, that was interesting, too.
~ Kate DiCamillo
All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
~ Kate DiCamillo
As they made their way back to shore, Edward felt the sun on his face and the wind blowing through the little bit of fur left on his ears, and something filled his chest, a wonderful feeling. He was glad to be alive.
~ Kate DiCamillo
He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world.
~ Kate DiCamillo
To be alive makes up for everything; there ought to be fears in my heart, but there aren't; something stronger sweeps them out; something like a wind.
~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
Like fire, the passage of time devoured all things, even a man's life, until it was utterly consumed.
~ Kate Elliott
I am trapped, and for once in my life I see no path through these Rings. Four
~ Kate Elliott
But in life, every moment can be said to be critical; all is revealed and concealed, created, maintained, and destroyed in the great dance of time.
~ Kate Elliott
la vida es lo que tú hagas de ella.
~ Kate Jacobs
We don't always get what we deserve," she replied, patting James over his heart. "Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something.
~ Kate Jacobs
Sometimes the good moments hurt much more than the bad.
~ Kate Jacobs
Aren't we all just flies crawling across the giant tablecloth of fate?
~ Kate Long
seas, lakes, rivers, streams, creeks, and puddles.
~ Kate McMullan