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58116c8 "But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak" human life human-condition trial priest mistakes guilty Franz Kafka
00023d5 Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread life family-values mafia rules Mario Puzo
d1b7d5e 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. life mastermind ozymandias plot evil Alan Moore
a3d942c "If Epicurus were speaking to you at this moment, he would urge you to simplify life. Here's how he might put it if he were standing here today : " Lads,your needs are few, they are easily attained, and any necessary suffering can be easily tolerated. Don't complicate your life with such trivial goals as riches and fame: they are the enemy of ATARAXIA. Fame,for example,consist of the opinions of others and requires that we must live our life as other wish. To achieve and maintain fame, we must like what others like and shun whatever it is that they shun. Hence, a life of fame or a life in politics? Flee from it. And wealth? Avoid it! It is a trap. The more we acquire the more we crave, and the deeper our sadness when our yearning is not satisfied. Lads, listen to me: If you crave happiness, do not waste your life struggling for that which you really do not need." life yalom Irvin D. Yalom
ed0475a I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval. life inspirational teenagers Stephenie Meyer
6b7c687 The past is a place of learning, not a place of living. learning inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living inspiring life inspirational experience Roy T. Bennett
0cb8978 The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. heart life Anne Morrow Lindbergh
234a0d0 Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move. life Ray Bradbury
a2ba633 Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant. life cruelty Brene Brown
c815e71 Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate. action compassion choice motivational success life inspirational participate seize-the-day today Steve Maraboli
9dde486 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. life Philip K. Dick
a8a51bf Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now. life Maya Angelou
eb731d2 The world isn't perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn't apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway. moving-on depression hope life Chloe Neill
c855437 Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life. life José Saramago
f210266 He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything. life inspirational Spencer Johnson
869d346 Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning. meaning death life Paulo Coelho
7f02aee At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are. terry-pratchett witches life truth inspirational tiffany-aching Terry Pratchett
3cc2bbc One could be happy not only without love, but despite it. life love Gabriel García Márquez
6e65f77 "I've never once thought about how I was going to die," she said. "I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live." life life-and-death Haruki Murakami
9152fe5 Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are life Jeannette Walls
7595789 Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death. life Haruki Murakami
2ef0da8 I cannot tell if what the world considers 'happiness' is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness. happiness life inspirational Chuang-Tzu
043851a Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it. She wished she could see Laila again, wished to hear the clangor of her laugh, to sit with her once more for a pot of chai and leftover halwa under a starlit sky. She mourned that she would never see Aziza grow up, would not see the beautiful young woman that she would one day become, would not get to paint her hands with henna and toss noqul candy at her wedding. She would never play with Aziza's children. She would have liked that very much , to be old and play with Aziza's children. Mariam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that washed over her. She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad , Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad. This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings. life leaving Khaled Hosseini
95b9f85 Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end. death life Joanne Harris
f59b152 How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order--willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. living life schedule Annie Dillard
b7950e6 "I paid, got up, walked to the door, opened it. I heard the man say, "that guy's nuts." out on the street I walked north feeling curiously honored." irony poem poetry funny death life mental self honor crazy soul Charles Bukowski
1c8344b Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count. life details Jon Kabat-Zinn
a5b8d05 Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you. life inspirational Daniel Radcliffe
ab63313 If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying. You're saying: Leave me alone; I don't mind this little rathole. It's warm and dry. Really, it's fine. When nothing new can get in, that's death. When oxygen can't find a way in, you die. But new is scary, and new can be disappointing, and confusing - we had this all figured out, and now we don't. New is life. life stuck safe new scary dying Anne Lamott
9664fc9 So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. work life vogons Douglas Adams
c48514b [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. marriage death life edward-fairfax-rochester honeymoon jane-eyre matrimony Charlotte Brontë
aa5bc93 We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to. life Paulo Coelho
258a997 One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back. positive positivity life love Napoleon Hill
399c2af If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up. heaven life waking-up dreaming Ian McEwan
a06bcac For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled. moving-on letting-go sadness life despair Harriet Beecher Stowe
5e6006e The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come. life jodi-picoult lone-wolf wolves Jodi Picoult
28e66c4 Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business. time history meaning life philosophy rest memory Julian Barnes
a480f58 You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure. life danger Jeannette Walls
874a3cd What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year. life-and-living life-quotes life Scott Westerfeld
69ccc45 She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life. influence world youth life Orhan Pamuk
9139349 Something is always happening somewhere. life Mitch Albom
962e340 That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund. life try-new-things Anthony Bourdain
2cc03d4 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. death science life mary-roach Mary Roach
a5c0eb4 Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. reading happiness life self-sufficiency Saul Bellow
90197a6 That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself. life growing Nick Hornby
bcbd232 That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox. reading life love everyday-life write movies thinking Nicole Krauss
613b6a7 But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It's a mistake of emphasis. life Nicholson Baker
e29cd6d But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. life the-art-of-war sun-tzu Sun Tzu
58837b8 "I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat," she mused. "Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: 'Oh, a horrid rat!' I shouldn't like people to scream and jump and say: 'Oh, a horrid Sara!' the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?" -- choice life frances-hodgson-burnett Frances Hodgson Burnett
883dac3 Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner. life ran jodi-picoult perfect-match moral Jodi Picoult
d838c1f "Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!" "Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm. "What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?" "I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly. "I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be-- all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!" "No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game." death life philosophy wisdom cruelty sport justice Terry Pratchett
2d5a20c She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her. life inspirational hurt soul Laurie Halse Anderson
6b4c3e6 The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars appeared. Soon, however, they too began to pale before a splendour in the east, and the advent of the dawn declared itself in the newborn blue of heaven. Quieter and yet more quiet grew the sea, quiet as the soft mist that brooded on her bosom, and covered up her troubling, as in our tempestuous life the transitory wreaths of sleep brook upon a pain-racked soul, causing it to forget its sorrow. From the east to the west sped those angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light from breast and wing. On they sped out of the darkness, perfect, glorious; on, over the quiet sea, over the low coast-line, and the swamps beyond, and the mountains above them; over those who slept in peace and those who woke in sorrow; over the evil and the good; over the living and the dead; over the wide world and all that breathes or as breathed thereon. stars life moon heavens horizon mist setting observation sunset place dusk sea night sunrise H. Rider Haggard
7974375 ql lnfsh nh l nj@ lh l bljnwn. ljnwn wHdh hw ldhy yts` llymn wlkfr, llmjd wlkhzy, llHb wlkhd`, llSdq wlkdhb, 'm l`ql fkyf ytHml hdhh lHy@ lGryb@? kyf yshym 'lq lnjwm whw mGrws Ht~ qm@ r'sh fy lwHl?! sanity life philosophy Naguib Mahfouz
ead0b2e We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others--our parents, for instance--and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live. life self-identity dialogue self parents Charles Taylor
d6ba4d6 If life -- the craving for which is the very essence of our being -- were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. existence life value Arthur Schopenhauer
29e1d31 The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. life sail-forth untold-want voyager seek Walt Whitman
2798ec7 You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't. moving-on life Katherine Paterson
a42f693 We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late. life stephen-king Stephen King
1ec82f8 "Good morning," said the little prince. Good morning," said the merchant. This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need for anything to drink. Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince. Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said the merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week." And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes?" Anything you like..." As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water." life wisdom Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
6dd458a But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. life indifference quality-of-life Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
be1f17a life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was. life inspirational Cecelia Ahern
56bbd33 "Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost sex shakespeare magic rain poems romance sacrifice death dreams music songs life carrack cityisle cityspire desolate fedora haunts horace-walpole mannequins phillip-k-dick puddles specters spectre amnesia androids haunting greek-mythology waking damnation count emily-dickinson magick tempest apocalypse reflections storms masquerade empty science-fiction gothic jazz ships ghosts water piano Nathan Reese Maher
57f61e0 There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion. life paths moving-forward smile Neil Gaiman
39a8607 What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. poem song life homage walt-whitman reflection Walt Whitman
883050b "A lang, lang time ago..." MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent's low groan, "there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the braw warrior who won her heart. Oscar bade his beloved tae wait for him while he went tae seek his fortune. But one black day Malvina received word that her lover had been killed in battle. He would lie forever in eternal rest in the faraway hills...lost in endless slumber..." "God, I envy him," St. Vincent said feelingly, rubbing his own dark-circled eyes." life Lisa Kleypas
e458520 Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth? death life equilibrium Ursula K. Le Guin
6f3f449 He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything. life mediocre Robert Cormier
a457d6e I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change. life Cassandra Clare
8681656 A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while. care darkness music song songs life love inspirational lyrics caring smile Ransom Riggs
4ddc86a As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe. relationships human life machines Kurt Vonnegut
8a77b7b This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again. life home Daphne du Maurier
3238488 I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven. death life love louisa-may-alcott little-women Louisa May Alcott
a063230 The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke. life love regret hopeless sad Holly Black
bcadc45 When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown! god life Fulton J. Sheen
aa4d12d It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place. murder theory humanity quote living life american-psycho psycho conclusion psychopath murderers gore serial-killer epiphany serial-killers the-world demons murderer society human-beings crime humans cruel human-nature horror evil Bret Easton Ellis
74e1e24 Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. life errors remorse Charlotte Brontë
d5c25aa "August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--" Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't... August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters." meaning life values Sue Monk Kidd
3945640 In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? work life inspirational Marcus Aurelius
b410c8d "We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?" free-will life Elizabeth Gilbert
0f95291 "Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want." "What's that, Ritchie?" His answer is simple. "To want." passion life Markus Zusak
82edcc8 A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. life wisdom planning Brian Tracy
48e39b0 Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen. There's no one alive who can say if he will be tomorrow. Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery. No one can teach it, no one can grasp it. Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink! But don't forget Aphrodite--that's You can let the rest go. Am I making sense? I think so. How about a drink. Put on a garland. I'm sure the happy splash of wine will cure your mood. We're all mortal you know. Think mortal. Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life, mortality death sadness happiness life cheer comedy Anne Carson
4cbb15f Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. trust life love Audrey Niffenegger
e5c114c ...because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth. dreams life Chuck Klosterman
38a804a George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength. strength life Christopher Isherwood
bf8b6c2 Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life. life John Green
be4252d "Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe." hope life durbyfield tess-of-the-d-urbervilles thomas-hardy Thomas Hardy
6f0e17b "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing Universe, for though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is inaccurate it is at least definitively inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it's always reality that's got it wrong. This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate." This has led to some interesting consequences. For instance, when the Editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Tralal literally (it said "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists: instead of "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists"), they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf." beauty life hitchhiker-s-guide Douglas Adams
123e274 It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else. life love pretend in-love moment Melissa de la Cruz
db26c53 Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and THIS makes the senses stronger in Italy than anywhere in Europe. This is why, Barzini says, Italians will tolerate hideously incompetent generals, presidents, tyrants, professors, bureaucrats, journalists and captain of industry, but will never tolerate incompetent opera singers, conductors, ballerinas, courtesans, actors, film directors, cooks, tailors... In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real. life love Elizabeth Gilbert
bd4af15 There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. life oblivious Leo Tolstoy
47c92bb The secret to kicking ass in dumbshit Hollywood... Every time you meet someone, make a fucking impression. Make them think you're the hottest shit in the world. Make them think they're gonna lose their job if they don't give you one. Look 'em in the eye, and never look away. Be confident and calm, be fucking bold. That sounds more like the secret to kicking ass in life. It is, but I was gonna wait and tell you that some other time. life kicking-ass James Frey
2eda084 Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie. life Cormac McCarthy
8a92b33 Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. funny death life peaches Alice Walker
8be9fa9 I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. life William Shakespeare
93b9f2e Brother, I'm not depressed and haven't lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter - this is what life is, herein lies its task. life Fyodor Dostoyevsky
691c22e That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison. life prison L.M. Montgomery
97e6aa4 Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. life Virginia Woolf
90602f3 The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. life Victor Hugo
422678f Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death. meaning life Salman Rushdie
6d491ac Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep. friends life Virginia Woolf
c02fb3c The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated. life truth Terry Pratchett
6bcbbcd It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit. life truth shit talking Haruki Murakami
984f58c My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. immortality life Emily Dickinson
b7facbe Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't. life profession job Dick Francis
1e5976e Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror. people life truth Yann Martel
8bc2ae9 The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. dream reality living death life existing truths carpe-diem life-and-death dead dying Arundhati Roy
e4c2c66 All live to die, and rise to fall. fate life Christopher Marlowe
f20b855 You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete? madness thoughts life philosophy expectations Paulo Coelho
44e59f6 He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice. life spite malice Patrick Süskind
eee322b There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves. life Virginia Woolf
caaec9d Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being. life being Kate Atkinson
1267fa7 Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her life love lantern gentle jane L.M. Montgomery
ec273b5 A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic. reality life love inspirational kleypas Lisa Kleypas
b5d01e6 For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known. life safety Ann M. Martin
f661537 Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone. life Jim Butcher
ccc9586 Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated. relationships life love Charlaine Harris
8ea989c Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels. life spain paradise Henry Miller
85b99ab Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea? life James Hilton
0bb92fb The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love. education happiness heart hope intelligence life love moon philosophy truth twinkle wisdom inspirational reflection knowledge moonlight Debasish Mridha
86dd2b7 Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box. life philosophy Henry Miller
cb92063 People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places. life Mitch Albom
f798659 There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children. having-children responsibility family life love truth experience children Mitch Albom
2ed18ed "TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most." words dreams success life inspirational plans Napoleon Hill
af48855 Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. life haruki murakami Haruki Murakami
c61fdab I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss youth life wisdom Maya Angelou
17e9cb8 Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! sanity humor life insanity Terry Pratchett
e9c57aa Maybe you are what you can't not be. life John Green
4aa1e42 It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began. death religion god life inspirational jesus-christ resurrection Francine Rivers
1e15634 We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long life Stephen King
cdd802c I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me. depression life philosophy dickens sydney-carton charles-dickens self-loathing alone self-worth depressed lonely sad Charles Dickens
039feb6 You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have. life disaster Kim Edwards
77ae66b Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it. reading motivational life Robert Greene
9e406b4 Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. science life philosophy paradigm-shift thomas-kuhn chaos-theory paradigm mathematics physics James Gleick
79f7cdf She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive. life Ursula K. Le Guin
b24dbd8 For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die. life Oscar Wilde
ff36aab That night, the Raka conspirators had plenty of news to report, particularly Ochobu. Aly had not known that the mages of the Chain had been laboring to eliminate any mages who had worked magic on the Crown's behalf. So far they had killed seven of the most powerful. Chelaol would call this count of the dead another 'good start,' Aly thought grimly. This crude business of counting up lives taken struck her as a bad idea. It took the horror from death. When Ochobu named four mages on Lombyn who had had been killed in the streets of their towns, it had been about numbers, not lives. Maybe this is how you become a Rittevon, she thought. You get used to the dead being described as numbers, not fathers or daughters or grandparents. She turned to Dove when Ochobu finished, 'don't ever be like this,' she urged. 'don't think that it doesn't matter if you only hear of murder as a number. If you keep it at a distance. murder life Tamora Pierce
0b234f7 I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire? people life heart-of-a-man Leo Tolstoy
800f84b Faith. Closely followed--in view of the overall shortage of time--by patience. faith death religion life virtues patience Christopher Hitchens
77392ec He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal. life Tom Robbins
15bdabb I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live. living life Albert Camus
4bbc03e There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme life patterns theme Jacqueline Carey
32a560a There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had. life misery Raymond Carver
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