Quotes on Life

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you get it over with, the sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.