Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Life
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we call life is only talk of nature.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat and man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
There are two ways of passing from this world – one in light, and one in darkness. When one passes in light he does not come back but when one passes in darkness he returns.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 8.26"
Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
-Alan Moore
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
-Paulo Coelho
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
-Charles Buxton
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
-Agatha Christie
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anaïs Nin
