Quotes about Life
My life's harvest is not the building material for anything, neither in my time, now, nor in any other, never.
— Olga Tokarczuk
There is only one thing we cannot have—eternal life, and, by God, whence did that concept come into our heads, that idea of being immortal?
— Olga Tokarczuk
Apoptosis is natural death, brought about by the tiredness and exhaustion of matter. In Greek this word means 'the dropping of petals'. The world has dropped its petals.
— Olga Tokarczuk
The same fate awaits me too, and Oddball, and the Deer outside; one day we shall all be nothing more than corpses.
— Olga Tokarczuk
That the world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully.
— Olga Tokarczuk
God, God . . . He's just a good accountant with an eye on the debit as well as the credit column. There has to be a balance. One life is wasted, another is born . . .
— Olga Tokarczuk
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Live Today like you may die tomorrow, Because someday you will be right.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.