She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.
You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.
Dan, I’m not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I’d explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?
Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person’s eyes maybe died back in childhood.
I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.
Inside, though, I was already broken.
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.
It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years….. Always remember this, Squadron Leader. It was our war, our victory and now it is our Berlin. We tolerate your presence in this city… if that.
Those guys who want to have the Mohawk…which, to me, is the new business casual.
You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.
If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.
If her enemies were Brigan’s friends and her friends were Brigan’s enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.
When you’re the most happening person at the party, it’s time to leave
Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.
If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
I know how you feel, Willem,” Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, “but he doesn’t want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. “I will go mad!” he annouced.
I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.
Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn’t hurt the untroubled spirit either.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Life may not be pretty but it’s always beautiful. We may only see the ugliness on the surface. The shit that only the world chooses to notice. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there’s no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are and love freely without judgement, it’s really beautiful.
I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles.
We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
I’m hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
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.
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.
Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.
And now I am here, as alone as I’ve ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it’s suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.