All Quotes By Tag: Life

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]”

“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”

“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”

“Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget who you are.”

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”

“If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don’t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don’t understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions.”

“I know it’s not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you’re not the only one with troubles.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death–ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.”

“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”

“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”