Famous Quotes

"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."

"Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking."

"Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?"

"Be where you are"

"All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is."

"When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift."

"Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart."

"I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile."

"If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?"

"That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it."

"First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air."

"What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation."

"Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger."

"Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is."

"For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces."

"She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?"

"We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are."

"What it means to be authentic:- to be more concerned with truth than opinions- to be sincere and not pretend- to be free from hypocrisy: "walk your talk"- to know who you are and to be that person- to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities- being confident to walk away from situations where you can't be yourself- being awake to your own feelings- being free from others' opinions of you- accepting and loving yourself"

"In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive."

"Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest."

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."

"Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier."