Quotes about life
life love-is keeping-promises
Love is keeping the promise anyway. John Green
life hipster sky
At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.
life memories people
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?
life imagining-the-future alaska
We all use the future to escape the present.
life talking appreciate
I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.
life music real
Some people have lives; some people have music.
life hipster believe
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
life change powerful
One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
life romantic special
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
life giving-up mean
I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.
life pain real
Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.
life hurt i-hate-you
Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.
life perfect people
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
life sweet kissing
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. John Gay
life men england
Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.
life running heart
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness. John Ford
life suffering dying
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying. John Flavel
life attitude men
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet. John Fowles
life country war
I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them.
life men perfectly-normal
It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.
life heart sitting
I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
life law laws-of-life
Change is the law of life. John F. Kennedy
life lonely memories
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusettsthe common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrantwill not be and could not be forgotten in the Nations Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future.
life stupid experts
All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?
life country military
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
life crazy sacrifice
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
life motivational fitness
We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.
life history permit
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
life fall creativity
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
life courage bravery
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
life motivational crazy
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
life country war
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
life basketball regret
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. Jonathan Larson