Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
"Flaubert's Parrot"
Quotations
Life
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes? The real life is within.
-Khalil Gibran
Life in other words is to "work" hard for the upliftment of yourself as well as
others and as and when opportunity knocks...thoroughly enjoy yourself. There
cannot be any other purpose of life.
-Deep Trivedi
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-Voltaire
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
-Jimi Hendrix
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
-Coco Chanel
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware. Joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
-Henry Miller
Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.
-Richelle Mead
"Last Sacrifice"
