Quotes about Life
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end.
— Barbara Kingsolver
She understands all at once, with a small shock, exactly what it is she always needed to tell Harland: being there in person is not the same as watching. You might see things better on television, but you'll never know if you were alive or dead while you watched.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The wonder to me now is that I thought my life worth saving...Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves. And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'll never get over my grappling for balance, never stop believing life is going to be fair , the minute we can clear up all these mistakes of the temporarily misguided.
— Barbara Kingsolver
To have been made the creatures we are is a marvel. If the process required millennia rather than seven days, how can it be any less sublime?
— Barbara Kingsolver
Killing is a culturally loaded term, for most of us inextricably tied up with some version of a command that begins, "Thou shalt not." Every faith has it. And for all but perhaps the Jainists of India, that command is absolutely conditional. We know it does not refer to mosquitoes.
— Barbara Kingsolver
One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.
— Barbara Kingsolver
People change, she said. Not everything stays with you all your life.
— Barbara Kingsolver