Quotes about life

Life’s like a fat orange, Frank thinks. When you’re young, you squeeze it hard and fast, trying to get all the juice in a hurry. When you’re older, you squeeze it slowly, savouring every drop. Because, one, you don’t know how many drops you have left, and, two, the last drops are the sweetest.

"It's the saddest sight to see, Scully, a man lettin his own life slip through his hands."

"You've got mean, Oriel."

She sniffs.

"It is the war that's done it to you?"

"It's all war," she said.

"What is?"

"I don't know. Everythin. Raisin a family, keepin yer head above water. Life. War is our natural state."

"Well, struggle maybe," said Lester.

"No, no, it's war."

Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.

Tengo started to have doubts about the difference between a person being alive and being dead. Maybe there really wasn’t much of a difference to begin with, he thought. Maybe we just decided, for convenience’s sake, to insist on a difference.

I’ve always believed that my dad is right about one thing—your life is your solo and whatever song you choose to sing you only get to do it once.

The day was springlike, the sun quickly burning away the night fog. “My heart tells me I had just as well talk to the clouds and wind,” he said, “but I want to say that life is sweet, love is strong; man fights to save his life; man also kills to win his heart’s desire; that is love. Death is mighty bad. Death will come to us soon enough.”

Whatever a being may own is of no importance, of no concern at all. It is gone and useless. All we have is our breath. I shall fight for it with teeth and nails.

"Life isn't very long. You see that plainly when you begin to look at it from the other end. Not time to do very much."

"If life weren't so short it would be worth people's while to do more to put the world to rights."

"Darling, you're talking as if all normal-length lives were planned. They aren't, you know. People have to learn how to live them—and by the time they find out, they're nearly gone. No time to remedy mistakes.

"Intelligent life is the only thing that gives meaning to the universe. It is a holy thing, to be fostered and treasured.

Without it nothing begins, nothing ends, there can be nothing through all eternity but the mindless babblings of chaos . . .

Therefore, the nurture of all intelligent forms is a sacred duty. Even the merest spark of reason must be fanned in the hope of a flame. Frustrated intelligence must have its bonds broken. Narrow-channelled intelligence must be given the power to widen out. High intelligence must be learned from."