Quotes about Life

A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and never had nothin. Seems like a old man'd be allowed his rest but then he comes to find they's things you have to do on account of nobody else wants to attend to em... Most ever man loves peace, he said, and none better than a old man.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.

Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison.

And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you?

There ain't but one life worth livin and I was born to it.

The lesson of a life can never be its own. Only the witness has power to take its measure. It is lived for the other only.

This night, thy soul may be required of thee.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good.

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

His whole life was sitting there in front of him. Day after day from dawn till dark until he was dead. All of it cooked down into forty pounds of paper in a satchel. He

Really. Been married once. No children. Amicably divorced. I dont have any tragedies in my life to give it a form and destination outside of my control. I like what I'm doing. But I could be doing something else. I've been blessed. I'm not even sure I'd change the bad things. Here comes the food.