This Life Quotes

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.

'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off.

Life is a very emotional experience.

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

I can't really remember my life without movies.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

Right now, I had everything I could ask for. It wasn't a long list, but it was a very satisfying one, starting with the love of my life back in my arms.