Quotes on “life”

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Decide what you want to be....Pay the Price ...And be what you want to be.