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Life Quotes
"Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it."
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"You Keep Looking at what you want but you can't have it , and once you have it it will never be the same."
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"May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby."
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"No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients-- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all."
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"Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world."
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"I want to remember...Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby-Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell in the twirling air of eiderdown feathers spin-floating around the yard on a new spring day."
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"I feel life trembling within me, in my tongue, on the soles of my feet, in my desire or my suffering, I want my soul to be a wandering thing, able to move back into a hundred forms, I want to dream myself into priests and wanderers, female cooks and murderers, children and animals, and, more than anything else, birds and trees; that is necessary, I want it, I need it so I can go on living, and if sometime I were to lose these possibilities and be caught in so-called reality, then I would rather die."
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"They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them."
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"One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top."
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"Life gives you what you expect, what you are prepared to put up with or can change."
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"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life."
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"It's your life, you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart."
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"The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it."
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"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."
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"Life is the sum of all your choices."
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"A life of leisure never satisfies anyone who possesses a lively mind."
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"A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life."
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"All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and stairs can kill us, if we do not walk circumspectly."
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"Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death."
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"What we have, we all must lose-that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth-nothing more."
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"I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life."
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"My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death."
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"The mirror it was and life it spelled, The road ahead, and the time past stepped, All gathered in one; one to all paired, My life is so different from all the world's threads.My breaths are mine, my woes are too, If my life were put through you, You sure would unlikely pursue, It should be left for me to gather, I am its sculptor, mine would be the hammer."
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"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone."
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"The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress."
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"Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor."
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"Eating was easy. Thinking was hard."
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience."
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"Every personal existence was upheld by a secret."
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"In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy."
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"To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end."
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"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."
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"It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide."
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"Only a small crack ... but cracks make caves collapse."
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