Quotes on “life”

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

Our life is made by the death of others.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.