Quotes on “life”

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades- except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves.

So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.