On Life Quotes

It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.

Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Time is long but life is short.

God, life changes faster than you think.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.