Quotes about Life

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.

It is widely known, after all, that real life takes place in movement.

He saw it. Not in front, or behind him, just somewhere out in the darkness. It was huge and powerful. The whiteness of its fur gleamed in the light of the snow. 'Wolf, in the name of the Polish border I beg you to spare my life,' he said into the darkness. The wolf stopped behind him, wondering.

But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? Does a thistle have no right to life, or a Mouse that eats the green in a warehouse? What about Bees and Drones, weeds and roses? Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse?

My life's harvest is not the building material for anything, neither in my time, now, nor in any other, never.

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?

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.

The same fate awaits me too, and Oddball, and the Deer outside; one day we shall all be nothing more than corpses.

That the world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully.

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 . . .

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.