This Life Quotes

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

May be able to die those who didn't know how to live

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

Live like there’s no tomorrow and learn as if your life depends on it

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

See it first in your mind, then become it.

Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.

For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.

Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.