Life
Quotes
(How
Much I Missed)
“How
much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
― Paulo
Coelho, Brida
“Time
takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
―
Stephen King, The Green Mile
“To
perceive is to suffer.”
―
Aristotle
“However
mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The
fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.
You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a
poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as
brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early
in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and
have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“The
strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are
going through their own storm.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Life
is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so
badly.”
―
Paulo Coelho
“People,"
Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then
they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal,
beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe
or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the
Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel
better then. They find it easier to live.”
―
Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
“Closed
in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is
missing out.”
―
Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“Spring
passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer
passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn
passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter
passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
―
Yoko Ono
“Do
not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
―
Albert Camus
“It’s
never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows
you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
―
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“The
surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“There
are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
―
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“The
object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding
oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“I'm
the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way
to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm
liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.”
―
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“I
know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and
hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”
―
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
“I'm
not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after
this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human:
to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to
love and to lust, to be so human.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“My
body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.”
―
Johnny Depp
“Do
not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
―
Elbert Hubbard
“If
you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim
to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you.
Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a
second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in
disguise.”
―
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
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