This Life Quotes
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray
I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.
Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.