This Life Quotes

You have every right to a beautiful life.

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

People ask without wanting to know.

Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

Take care of your life force and always keep it streaming. Always be active and creative, and never ever stop dreaming.

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss.

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist--for we would be no longer who we are.

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.

What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.