Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
"Flaubert's Parrot"
Quotations
Life
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-Socrates
Those who see all creatures within themselves, and themselves in all creatures know no fear. Those who see all creatures in themselves, and themselves in all creatures know no grief. How can the multiplicity of life, delude the one who sees its unity?
-Isha Upanishad "Isha Upanishad 6-7"
I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.
-Morrissey
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
-Gustave Flaubert
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
-Mitch Albom
"The Five People You Meet in Heaven"
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
-Sydney J. Harris
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Will science ever be able to create life? No way! The question simply does not
arise because here, no one has the power to create or destroy.
-Deep Trivedi
