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
It is a reality of life that affection is not always reciprocated.
-Alison Gardner
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth
Life is only the present. And in the present, neither there is room for memories of
the past nor worries of the future. The root cause of all the miseries of life is the
effort to accommodate the past or future in the present.
-Deep Trivedi
Rise to the occasion which is life!
-Virginia Euwer Wolff
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
-Mark Twain
I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.
-Morrissey
In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
-Gordon B. Hinckley
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
-Logan P. Smith
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
