This Life Quotes

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

Your mission isn't your guide. You have to find your own way.

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

Fear attracts the darkness. When you have no fear, the darkness fears you.

My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.

Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it’s not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.

Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Life is just a lot of everyday adventures.

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

Love is born from disagreeing over something we believe in. Hate is born from disagreeing over something we fear.

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

Life is so spine chillingly beautiful.

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

When you live positively it is impossible to not also be living for something greater than yourself.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.