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Life Quotes
"Some people are never overcome by anything: not by grief, not by love, not by anything or anyone. They never hold on too tight and they never push too hard. And other people are overcome by almost everything: by grief, by love, by almost everything. They hold on too tight and they push too hard. Both the flower and the storm bring awe and admiration. Do we live life pushing and pulling and gasping at lightning bolts? Or do we live life poised and positive and breathing clandestine proportions? Who knows! Who can ever say?"
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"You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word."
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"This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing.All in vain. All wasted.The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker.More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain."
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"Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!"
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"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
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"I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it."
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"Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society tell you how your music is supposed to sound - or how your book is supposed to be written."
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"There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately."
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"For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another."
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"Things are always better in the morning."
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"We want to climb in with you, ' Dermot said. 'We'll all sleep better.'That seemed incredibly weird and creepy to me - or maybe I only thought it should have. I was simply too tired to argue. I climbed in the bed. Claude got in on one side of me, Dermot on the other. Just when I was thinking, I would never be able to sleep, that this situation was too odd and too wrong, I felt a kind of blissful relaxation roll through my body, a kind of unfamiliar comfort. I was with family. I was with blood.And I slept."
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"Winners of some competition are not heroes, heroes are not found in the competition, heroes win much more severe battles than competition to become heroes."
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"We can't help it. Life looks for life."
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"It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so."
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"There is no real way to deal with everything we lose."
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"You find your greatest joy the moment when you discover your purpose in life."
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"We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us."
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"Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable."
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"A day is a collection of moments in the same way that life is a collection of experiences."
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"I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go, but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it."
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"It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs."
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"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
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"That's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be next.I had laughed. you would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else.I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip."
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"It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep."
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"Life is a playground and a laboratory, avoid neglecting one for the other."
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"Adulthood is a wonderful thing and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a perpetual vigorous adulthood than to any other state we know."
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"It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things."
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"The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them."
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"There are no trophies for the real victories in life."
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"You're too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we'll have to send some of the guards with you. You'll never survive on your own, poor thing."
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"Stop your idiocy, Sandra, please. For once in your death."
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