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
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?
My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can.
- Cary Grant
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
- Gary Paulsen
Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;
and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.
The heart has a heart of its own.
Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
When we’re together, I feel like the sun just came out on a cloudy day.
- Dawn Chalker
Lost and Found
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
- Margaret Mitchell
Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
While there's life, there's hope.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?
- Sierra D. Waters
Debbie.
It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.
It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.
- Jocelyn Soriano
Mend My Broken Heart
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.
As Kevin climbed the three flights of stairs to his apartment, his brain formulated a vague plan of action. He could not have explained it to anyone or even to himself in coherent sentences. But the outline was there in Kevin’s subconscious. It would not only change his life, but many others, as well.
A Call to Action had been born.
- Traci Medford-Rosow
Unblinded: One Man’s Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
-
William GoldmanFour Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?
My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can.
- Cary Grant
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
- Gary Paulsen
Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;
and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.
The heart has a heart of its own.
Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
When we’re together, I feel like the sun just came out on a cloudy day.
- Dawn Chalker
Lost and Found
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
- Margaret Mitchell
Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
While there's life, there's hope.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?
- Sierra D. Waters
Debbie.
It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.
It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.
- Jocelyn Soriano
Mend My Broken Heart
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.
As Kevin climbed the three flights of stairs to his apartment, his brain formulated a vague plan of action. He could not have explained it to anyone or even to himself in coherent sentences. But the outline was there in Kevin’s subconscious. It would not only change his life, but many others, as well.
A Call to Action had been born.
- Traci Medford-Rosow
Unblinded: One Man’s Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
-
William GoldmanFour Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?
My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can.
- Cary Grant
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
- Gary Paulsen
Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;
and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.
The heart has a heart of its own.
Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
When we’re together, I feel like the sun just came out on a cloudy day.
- Dawn Chalker
Lost and Found
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
- Margaret Mitchell
Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
While there's life, there's hope.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?
- Sierra D. Waters
Debbie.
It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.
It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.
- Jocelyn Soriano
Mend My Broken Heart
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.
As Kevin climbed the three flights of stairs to his apartment, his brain formulated a vague plan of action. He could not have explained it to anyone or even to himself in coherent sentences. But the outline was there in Kevin’s subconscious. It would not only change his life, but many others, as well.
A Call to Action had been born.
- Traci Medford-Rosow
Unblinded: One Man’s Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
-
William GoldmanFour Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
