Quotes About Life

Such disappointments, betrayals and reconciliations were the stuff of married life, but she and Jack had gone through them before the wedding. Now, at least, she felt confident that she knew him. Nothing was likely to surprise her. It was a funny way to do things, but it might be better than making your vows first and getting to know your spouse afterward.

Some men craved deference; others craved wine, or the bodies of beautiful women, or the monastic life of order and obedience. What did Ned crave? The answer came into his mind with a speed and effortlessness that took him by surprise: justice.

Su mente era como una casa que había ido amueblando durante toda su vida. Las mesas y las camas eran las canciones que sabía cantar, las obras que había visto, las catedrales que había admirado y los libros que había leído en inglés, francés y latín.

The sight of them all made Caris marvel: each individual had a different life, every one of them rich and complex, with dramas in the past and challenges in the future, happy memories and secret sorrows, and a crowd of friends and enemies and loved ones.

was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them.

Alison was relieved: she would have hated to see Mary lose her dignity as well as her life. "Follow me," said the sheriff. Mary turned back momentarily and took an ivory crucifix from its hook on the wall over the altar. With the cross pressed to her heavy bosom and the prayer book in her other hand she walked behind the sheriff, and Alison followed.

He had realized that she was all the joy in his world. If the weather was fine, he wanted to walk in the sunshine with her; if he saw something beautiful, he wanted to show it to her; if he heard something funny, his first thought was to tell her, and see her smile. His work gave him pleasure, especially when he came up with clever solutions to intractable problems; but it was a cold, cerebral satisfaction, and he knew that his life would be a long winter without Caris.

His mind was like a house he had spent his life furnishing.

Everything in Tom's cathedral looked as if it was meant to be. Perhaps her life was like that, everything foreordained in a grand design, and she was like a foolish builder who wanted a waterfall in the chancel.

Mi vida ha sido un fracaso —dijo Walter—. Aquí acaban todas las esperanzas. La democracia alemana ha muerto.

Over the next three or four years you'll do things you'll remember later with deep embarrassment. But when you're old you'll wish you'd done all of them twice.

Cuántos años pueden algunas personas vivir, antes de que se les permita ser libres?»

They who live by the sword shall die by the sword. Jesus said, although that verse was not often quoted by the priests of King Edward III's reign. Fiat voluntas tua : They will be done [Latin]

Lizzie found his equanimity incredible. What kind of people were these miners? Though their lives were brutally hard their spirits seemed unquenchable. By comparison her own life seemed pampered and purposeless.

Cómo debo vivir?». La respuesta de Tolstói era: «Tú conoces en tu corazón lo que es recto».

Los seres humanos tenemos la capacidad de sobreponernos a las circunstancias cotidianas y acercarnos a lo eterno.

It was a sudden reminder that life was unpredictable.

Resulta extraño que a veces Dios se lleve a los hombres buenos y deje a los malos.

Quel giorno la vita e la morte erano state distribuite come carte da gioco.

I'm only thirty-seven, he thought; is this when old age begins?

Over the next three or four years you'll do things you'll remember later with deep embarrassment. But when you're old you'll wish you'd done all of them twice.----Ken Follett

into the Moscow earth, perhaps fifty years from now? 'Call no man happy until he is dead,' said the playwright Aeschylus: Dimka had heard that quote at university and always remembered it. Youthful promise could be blighted by later tragedy; suffering was often rewarded by wisdom.

Los años parecen pasar con más rapidez a medida que te vas haciendo mayor.

The ducks swallow the worms, and the foxes kill the ducks, and the men shoot the foxes, and the devil hunts the men.