About Life Quotes

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

As long as there's life, there's hope.

She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.

He killed himself for wanting to live.

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.

How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

Every flower blooms at a different pace.

To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".

One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.

Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.

I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

Going back to something is harder than you think.

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.