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
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave
- Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
- charles de lint
XXX
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
-
Hermann HesseVerliebt in die verrückte Welt: Betrachtungen, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe
Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.
- R.D. Ronald
XXX
It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Requiem for a Dream
What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
XXX
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??
You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.
Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
- R.D. Ronald
The Elephant Tree
I’m sort of… coming off a bad relationship”
“When did it end?”
“Slightly before it started.
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
- Czesław Miłosz
I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
- Nouwen Henri J. M.
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.
- Christopher Rice
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
- Douglas Pagels
there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.
- Raymond Carver
Ultramarine: Poems
Making it to the Super Bowl is something few and far between. Many football players never get the opportunity to make it that far.
- Vernon Davis
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
- Karen Thompson Walker
The Age of Miracles
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave
- Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
- charles de lint
XXX
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
-
Hermann HesseVerliebt in die verrückte Welt: Betrachtungen, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe
Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.
- R.D. Ronald
XXX
It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Requiem for a Dream
What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
XXX
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??
You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.
Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
- R.D. Ronald
The Elephant Tree
I’m sort of… coming off a bad relationship”
“When did it end?”
“Slightly before it started.
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
- Czesław Miłosz
I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
- Nouwen Henri J. M.
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.
- Christopher Rice
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
- Douglas Pagels
there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.
- Raymond Carver
Ultramarine: Poems
Making it to the Super Bowl is something few and far between. Many football players never get the opportunity to make it that far.
- Vernon Davis
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
- Karen Thompson Walker
The Age of Miracles
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave
- Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
- charles de lint
XXX
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
-
Hermann HesseVerliebt in die verrückte Welt: Betrachtungen, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe
Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.
- R.D. Ronald
XXX
It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
- Hubert Selby Jr.
Requiem for a Dream
What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
XXX
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??
You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.
Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
- R.D. Ronald
The Elephant Tree
I’m sort of… coming off a bad relationship”
“When did it end?”
“Slightly before it started.
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
- Czesław Miłosz
I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
- Nouwen Henri J. M.
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.
- Christopher Rice
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
- Douglas Pagels
there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.
- Raymond Carver
Ultramarine: Poems
Making it to the Super Bowl is something few and far between. Many football players never get the opportunity to make it that far.
- Vernon Davis
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
- Karen Thompson Walker
The Age of Miracles
