528 Quotes About Lives

The kind of new beginnings that transform our lives are less about what we do in our lives, and more about what we deliver into the life of another.

The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.

I live more than a thousand lives... through the eyes of the characters I read in books.

Christlikeness means to live and act as Christ lived and acted.

The reason people die for the cause is that it lasts longer than life. Depending on the level of conviction people decide to trade their lives to its preservation.

I have lived so long within the circle of this book [Tender Is The Night] and with these characters that often it seems to me that the real world does not exist but that only these characters exist, and, however pretentious that remark sounds....it is an absolute fact---so much so that their glees and woes are just exactly as important to me as what happens in life.

People who fell in love at first sight, rushed home to their parents to tell them the good news and subsequently married were, [Patricia Highsmith] thought, retarded. Rather, a more honest appraisal of the nature of love positions it nearer to the horrors of mental illness. How else could you explain the fact that so many people were prepared to sacrifice the safety and cosiness of their lives for the thrill of a new romance?

Those who love their lives too much eventually lose it. While those who are ready to sacrifice their lives for others gain it.

But you will not spare a drop of pity because I am rich? We have death in our gilded courts, too. We have disease and cruelty, and not a breath of air or freedom. You cannot say our lives are easy, any more than I can say yours is. They are lives, and so they are HORRID!