Quotes About Life

Was this what a family was, how it grew—straight as the children's teeth? Sure, there was an arm in a sling and over time the grandparents disappeared from the photos. The occasions changed, as did the dogs. But this was a family, start to finish, without wars or famines or political prisons, without a stranger coming to town to drown your daughter.

Nonc's dad has had cancer before, so the diagnosis isn't exactly news. There's something right about it, though. A man spends his life "not expected"—isn't that how it should end?

Jun Do had dealt with this his whole life, the ways it was impossible for people from normal families to conceive of a man in so much hurt that he couldn't acknowledge his own son, that there was nothing worse than a mother leaving her children, though it happened all the time, that "take" was a word people used for those who had so little to give as to be immeasurable.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

The truth is, though, that you don't need to die to know what it's like to be a ghost.

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone -- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

Then again, you only live a few times, so why not be happy? Why be hard on yourself? Why be hard on yourself for who you had been in a previous life? Why be hard on yourself for who you had been before you'd understood the laws? Especially when you couldn't—if you were being honest with yourself—you couldn't really be sure you understood the laws now? Like maybe the laws weren't even

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

it is good to do justice because God will kill you and your family whether you do justice or not.

All the word's indeed a page and we must loudly tear it.

We can't just have everything without complications, you and I. There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths.

A little season of love and laughter,Of light and life, and pleasure and pain,And a horror of outer darkness after,And dust returneth to dust again.

Kto nie dozna? goryczy ni razu, Ten nie dozna s?odyczy w niebie.

Pola?y si? ?zy me czyste, rz?siste Na me dzieci?stwo sielskie, anielskie, Na moj? m?odo?? górn? i durn?, Na mój wiek m?ski, wiek kl?ski; Pola?y si? ?zy me czyste, rz?siste…

?y?am na ?wiecie; lecz, ach! nie dla ?wiata! My?l moja, nazbyt skrzydlata, Nigdy na ziemskiej nie spocz??a b?oni.

Kto nie dotkn?? ziemi ni razu, Ten nigdy nie mo?e by? w niebie.

Today Gustaw has died, today Konrad was born

Skutki sza?u, Albo mo?e kuglarstwo? - S? kosztowne bronie, Których ostrze przenika i a? w duszy tonie; Przecie? widomie nie uszkodz? cia?u. Tak? broni? po dwakro? zosta?em przebity... (po pauzie z u?miechem) Tak? broni? za ?ycia s? oczy kobiéty, (ponuro) A po ?mierci grzesznika cierpi?cego skrucha!

Bo?e! Co? mi rozkaza? spe?ni? kielich ?ycia I zbyt wielki, zbyt gorzki da?e? mi do picia, Je?li wzgl?dów twojego mi?osierdzia godna Cierpliwo??, z któr? gorycz wychyli?em do dna, Jedynej, lecz najwi?kszej ?miem ??da? nagrody: Pob?ogos?aw wnukowi – niechaj umrze m?ody!

Bo s?uchajmy i zwa?my u siebie, ?e wed?ug bo?ego rozkazu: Kto za ?ycia cho? raz by? w niebie, Ten po ?mierci nie trafi od razu.

Hej, u?yjmy ?ywota! Wszak ?yjem tylko raz;

Na trzech stoi koronach, a sam bez korony; A ?ycie jego - trud trudów, A tytu? jego - lud ludów; Z matki obcej, krew jego dawne bohatery, A imi? jego czterdzie?ci i cztery.

friend: "I am now at work on a poem of life among the gentry, in the style of Hermann and

The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.