We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
Quotations
Life
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
-Gustave Flaubert
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
-Nelson Mandela
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
-Hilary Cooper
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
-Benjamin Franklin
The ups and downs coming in others' life do not make a difference to you;
because you know that he is the other. If you wish, you can separate your 'being'
from 'yourself' and then like that of others, the ups and downs of your own life will
also not affect you.
-Deep Trivedi
