Web
ContentsArticles Poems Autobiographies Pictures Quotations | Quotations
Life - Death| Return to Index | | Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow.
| | Adam R. Gwizdala,
, ,
|
| Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
| | Adrienne Rich,
1929-, American,
Feminist and Poet |
| I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
| | Agatha Christie,
1890-1976, Englidh,
Writer |
| The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
| | Alan Watts,
1915-1973, English,
Philosopher |
| I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
| | Albert Einstein,
1879-1955, German American,
Physicist |
| We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
| | Albert Schweitzer,
, ,
|
| Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
| | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
, ,
|
| Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
| | Alfred Adler,
1870-1937, Austrian,
Psychologist |
| Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had no luck at all.
| | Alfred Edward Housman,
, ,
|
| Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
| | Alice Meynell,
, ,
|
| Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
| | Alvin Toffler,
1928-, American,
Writer and Futurist |
| Happiness: We rarely feel it. /I would buy it, beg it, steal it,/ Pay in coins of dripping blood/ For this one transcendent good.
| | Amy Lowell,
1874-1925, American,
Poet |
| Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
| | Andrew Cohen,
, ,
|
| Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
| | Anne Grant,
1755 - 1838, Scottish,
Poet |
| Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
| | Anne Grant,
1755 - 1838, Scottish,
Poet |
| The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.
| | Anthony Brandt,
, ,
|
Quotations
1 to 20 of 305 |
Return to Index | |
