This Life Quotes

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that count.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Life is not fair get used to used to it

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Life in us is like the water in a river.

Misfortunes never come singly.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

One man in his time plays many parts.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

Writing is the act of discovery.

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.