Quotes on “life”

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.