life

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."

"You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought."

"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."

"To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality"of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime."

"Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay."

"When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice."

"To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving."

"What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."

"Life itself is the proper binge."

"Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain."

"Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?"

"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats."

"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

"She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life."

"It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it."

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."

"in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better."

"I am a fisherman among farmers, and as a farmer what I grow is tired of waiting for her to love me."