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Life Quotes (page 282)

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know. Patti Smith
... The triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane over her head was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June. Virginia Woolf
Jackie Collins quote: "The truth would set her free. Only then would she be able to..."
The truth would set her free. Only then would she be able to get on with her life. Jackie Collins
Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves for a long period of time or for good, when the beloved friend departs to another country or dies? the pain of the leaving can tear us apart. Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of... Henri Nouwen
The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life which shields people from the consequences of their actions. However cruel Attila, Genghis Khan and their followers may have been, the act of killing people personally, face to face, must have been unpleasant: the wailing relatives and the presence of the corpses. And thus their cruelty was restrained. Nowadays we kill people through such a complex process of... Leo Tolstoy
Mark Twain quote: "I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life..."
I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened. Mark Twain
Haruki Murakami quote: "Well, Mr Katagiri, I have not been frogging all these years..."
Well, Mr Katagiri, I have not been frogging all these years for nothing. I keep my eye on the important things in life. Haruki Murakami
Jean Cocteau quote: "Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve..."
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life. Jean Cocteau
A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. Truman Capote
You might hide in some Freudian jungle most of your miserable life, baying at the moon and shouting curses at God, but at the end, right down there at the damned end when it counts... you would sure as anything clear up just enough to realize the moon you have spent so many years baying at is nothing but the light globe up there on the ceiling, and God is just something placed in your bureau drawer by the Gideon Society. Yes, I sighed again, in the long run insanity would be the same old... Ken Kesey
E. F. Schumacher quote: "Real life consists of the tensions produced by the..."
Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed E. F. Schumacher
E. M. Forster quote: "Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us..."
Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. E. M. Forster
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends. C. S. Lewis
When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious. Eric Clapton

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