Quotes on “life”

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.

You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.

People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lustLike diamonds we are cut with our own dust

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.