Life Quotes - You made Me confess the Fears
that I have
“Oh,
I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller
coaster that only goes up, my friend.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I
don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life
seem.”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
“I
want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want
to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a
collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes.
I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows
open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the
exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets
and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me
jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he
gave life to someone who loves the gift.”
―
Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of
Everyday Life
“Human
beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to
them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to
themselves.”
―
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
“In
the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
―
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
“Earth's
crammed with heaven...
But
only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”
―
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
“Hardships
make or break people.”
―
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Always
have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“You
made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not
fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave
whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great
mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
―
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Most
of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of
fifteen.”
―
Willa Cather
“But
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you
feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”
―
Gloria Naylor
“There
are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who,
when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half
full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.
The
world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up
with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My
glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?
And
at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who
has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually
by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all,
because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's
eye. ”
―
Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation
“And
therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle;
it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is
the longing for repetition.”
―
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Life
isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
―
Eckhart Tolle
“Women,
they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got
ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people
saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
―
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“The
cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be
exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I
suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face.
Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone,
withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful —
only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
―
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“This
isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”
―
Terry Pratchett
“As
far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light
of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
―
Carl Gustav Jung
“What
were you before you met me?"
"I
think I was drowning"
"And
what are you now?"
"Water”
―
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
