This Life Quotes

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

I can go to a lot of games, but I'm not a player. I'm kind of an observer. That's why I think I do what I do in life. I just observe. That's what I find fascinating.

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

My grandmother made dying her life's work.

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

How the hell are you supposed to know what God wants you to do with your life, eh?

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose in life--to give back to society.

My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well.

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary.

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

As you learn to TRUST YOURSELF something miraculous happens. You begin to TRUST THE PROCESS you are living and the miracles life brings!

If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it’s gone forever.

There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

Details are the Life of Prose.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

Actor's life is very long.

I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It’d be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

Are you here to experience life or think about it?