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Life Quotes


"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."


"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."


"I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know', I said. 'Tomorrow."


"Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself."


"As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know."


"Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life."



"We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction."


"Be cautious of every motive behind any action, because not every smile is genuine; sometimes it's just a grin."


"In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all."


"Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death."


"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."


"Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself."



"I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit."



"Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing."


"Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children."


"I believe in times of adversity there's a line that is sometimes drawn, a line that separates your old life from your new. You cross the line, you'll never be the same."


"There isn't a need to sugar coat life anymore, Cant we see we live through enough lies, deciet and painful realities to create more, by stagnating the growth of the ones your suppose to make an Impact on and more importantly yourself. Let life be funny, but never a joke."


"Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you."


"Beautiful toes are an addition to a woman's appearance."


"Life can't be divided into chapters...only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath.I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how."


"If time is linear, every moment is new! Monotony is just an experience of Ignorance!"


"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."


"Do not consider despair as a thick and high wall standing on your way, it is just a darkness and you can still walk in the darkness till you reach the light!"


"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life."


"I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff."



"Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut."


"No person can claim to be anything more or anything less than his or her individual assimilation of a lifelong symposium of inimitable physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual occurrences. Simply put, we each place our own individualized stamp upon the meaning of life. How we live, how we struggle, and how we die reflects what life means to each of us. We are all students of life, we are a product of what we pay attention to, what we observe, and experience, and what subjects arrest our minds."


"We let life down: it doesn't let us down."


"Common sense is calculation applied to life."


"Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain."


"Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair."



"I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all."



"I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life."



"I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been."
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