Quotes about life

… after you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? … What moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet?

How mysterious this life was, how deep and muddy its waters ran, yet how clear and noble what emerged from them.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

Next year’s going to be even bigger, days will be brighter, nights longer and darker, more people dying, more babies born, and me in the middle of it all.

Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.

Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street.

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit — no matter how often he's reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley... Very few toads in this world are Prince Charmings in disguise. Most are simply toads... and they are going to stay that way... Toads don't make laws or change any basic structures, but one or two rooty insights can work powerful changes in the way they get through life. A toad who believes he got a raw deal before he even knew who was dealing will usually be sympathetic to the mean, vindictive ignorance that colors the Hell's Angels' view of humanity. There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.

So much existed: so much to be felt and seen and known! A single life was not enough…

Never neglect the wonder of conscious existence, which too soon comes to an end!