Quotes about Life
You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.
— Alice Hoffman
The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been created on that day when life first appeared, yet i was embittered, I wept for what i had lost and what the world had lost and would yet lose again.
— Alice Hoffman
Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.
— Alice Hoffman
but as God created life, so did He create destruction.
— Alice Hoffman
Life was like a book, Jet thought, but one you would never finish. You would never know how people would wind up; the good often suffered and the wicked prospered and there was no explanation for the way in which fate was meted out as there was in novels.
— Alice Hoffman
You were a boy. Life is a mess, that's what Isabelle told me when I decided to have the child, but all we can do is live it.
— Alice Hoffman
you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.
— Alice Hoffman
Fate is what you make it, or you will be what it makes of you.
— Alice Hoffman
For green is love and luck just as it is jealousy and envy
— Alice Hoffman
Well, I think of life as a novel. You can't just hop out of the mess you're in and into another story. You carry it all with you.
— Alice Hoffman
Those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.
— Alice Hoffman
life. She was only a girl and exhausted from her journey, but she would do as she must in order to survive.
— Alice Hoffman