205 quotes found
“A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo i...”
“There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.”
“Life may suck but death is worse.”
“All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn(from Elixir)”
“Two Things to be accepted for sure in life time?1. Birth2. Death”
“Though his health and family had been broken in the process, he'd found his purpose in life to share the ancient key discovered anew in the garden: if we feed the earth, it will feed us.I see that...”
“To them hes the slightly less frightening alternative to the grim reaper.”
“It's only amatter of time, and God's timming never second best”
“Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this ...”
“I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or...”
“I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness, to the néant, and it seemed to me that my own death was the only thing left th...”
“Water is the most versatile of all elements. It isn't afraid to burn in fire or fade into the sky, it doesn't hesitate to shatter against sharp rocks in rainfall or drown into the dark shroud of th...”
“Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made...”
“I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.”
“The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered...We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being...”
“I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.”
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
“Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.”
“They say the brain never ages it’s a shame it can't teach the body that trick.”
“For the very first time Andrew realized that life, real life, had no connection with the way people spent their days, whose lips they kissed, what medals were pinned on them, or the shoes they mend...”
