Quotes on “life”

Amor Fati – Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.