QUOTES ABOUT LIFE
Life is a journey filled with moments of joy, struggle, growth, and reflection. The quotes that follow capture different perspectives on what it means to live, love, and learn. Together, they offer insight, inspiration, and reminders that life’s lessons often come from our shared experiences. ◀ Back
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
- Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human
It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.
And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.
- Marian Keyes
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
- Omar Khayyam
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Inheritance Games
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
- Roger Zelazny
Prince of Chaos
Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.
The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
- Michel Legrand
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
- Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human
It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.
And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.
- Marian Keyes
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
- Omar Khayyam
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Inheritance Games
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
- Roger Zelazny
Prince of Chaos
Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.
The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
- Michel Legrand
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
- Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human
It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.
And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.
- Marian Keyes
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
- Omar Khayyam
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Inheritance Games
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
- Roger Zelazny
Prince of Chaos
Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.
The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
- Michel Legrand
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
