528 Quotes About Lives

Most people just live, but an educated person lives, enjoys, and knows why they live.

Already I ache for all the livesI will never be a part of.

Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.

We’re not put on this earth to fuck around. We have to make something of our lives.

Look at the worms, Eric. See how they glow with life? Like jewels! Aren’t even the smallest lives beautiful?

Peace and unity in our lives

You know the Holy Spirit lives in you when you can defend the Holy Bible without fear or intimidation. John 14:1.

Everyone, he continued, wants his life to stand for something other than what it would, which is about eighty years – in the West, at any rate – eighty years of working, eating, sleeping, shitting, breeding, and dying. Lives of buttoning and unbuttoning – who said that?

I had come by then to be conscious of this aspect of slave lives: at one and the same time the masters held contrary beliefs about those they bought into their homes, viz., It did not matter what a slave saw and so behaviour that the masters would be ashamed to even have rumoured about them was carried forward unchecked in front of their slaves; and at the same time they protested: how dare you, a slave, look at us as we do thus or thus?