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
When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?
- Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See
The beautiful is always bizarre.
- Charles Baudelaire
Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Demon in My View
Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.
- Tiffanie DeBartolo
How to Kill a Rock Star
Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
- Erol Ozan
I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.
- Jennifer Niven
All the Bright Places
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.
If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
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Anaïs NinThe Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
You will suffer, son of Hades!’
What else is new? Nico thought.
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.
- Nikki Sixx
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.
We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.
- Samantha Shannon
The Priory of the Orange Tree
When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?
- Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See
The beautiful is always bizarre.
- Charles Baudelaire
Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Demon in My View
Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.
- Tiffanie DeBartolo
How to Kill a Rock Star
Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
- Erol Ozan
I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.
- Jennifer Niven
All the Bright Places
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.
If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
-
Anaïs NinThe Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
You will suffer, son of Hades!’
What else is new? Nico thought.
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.
- Nikki Sixx
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.
We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.
- Samantha Shannon
The Priory of the Orange Tree
When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?
- Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See
The beautiful is always bizarre.
- Charles Baudelaire
Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Demon in My View
Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.
- Tiffanie DeBartolo
How to Kill a Rock Star
Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
- Erol Ozan
I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.
- Jennifer Niven
All the Bright Places
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.
If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
-
Anaïs NinThe Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
You will suffer, son of Hades!’
What else is new? Nico thought.
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.
- Nikki Sixx
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.
We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.
- Samantha Shannon
The Priory of the Orange Tree
