Famous Quotes & Sayings

Soren Kierkegaard

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Soren Kierkegaard

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Soren Kierkegaard

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Soren Kierkegaard

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Life was a storm to wander through.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Life is not lost -dying; life is lost minute -minute, day -dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephenie Meyer

Life and love go on...

Stephenie Meyer

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

Stephenie Meyer

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

Stephenie Meyer

I’ve chosen my life — now I want to start living it.

Stephenie Meyer

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

Stephenie Meyer

When you can live forever what do you live for?

Stephenie Meyer

Today is the first and last day of forever.

Stephenie Meyer

Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.

Stephen Chbosky

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

Stephen Chbosky

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.

Stephen Chbosky

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

Stephen Chbosky

This moment will just be another story someday.

Stephen Colbert

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Stephen Colbert

Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.

Stella Adler

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stefan Zweig

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

Stefan Zweig

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Stefan Zweig

This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.

Stefan Zweig

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Sonia Sotomayor

There are no bystanders in this life.

Thomas Pynchon

If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?

Thomas Harris

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

Thomas Harris

I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.