Quotes about Life

And that would be my life. And I would be happy.

Men spared their lives in great disasters often feel in their deliverance the workings of fate. The hand of Providence.

Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from 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.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you. Yessir.

He was shot in a fracas of some kind. Long fore he married. Come near dyin. So I always wondered about that, had he died none of us would never have been at all and I never could … Well, that's a funny thing to think. Maybe we would have just been somebody else.

Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life

If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain.

The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy. I suppose that's true. What then? Is that all that the world has in mind? If the world has a mind then it's all worse than we thought.

To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.

Only youth has a taste of immortality.