Quotes Tagged "life"

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

What I've learnt - to my cost - on several occasions in my life, is that people will put up with all manner of bad behaviour so long as you're giving them what they want. They'll laugh and get into it and enjoy the anecdotes and the craziness and the mayhem as long as you're going your job well, but the minute you're not, you're fucked. They'll wipe their hands of you without a second glance.

Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.


I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...

I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

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

Our life is made by the death of others.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.

Life… For some it is battle for others its dance...For rich it is party for poor it is chance!