Quotes on “life”

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Going back to something is harder than you think.

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

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.

Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn't notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.