Quotes tagged ‘Life’

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the…”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood…”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual ni…”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the…”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com

“Smart girls have lives of their own. They will not live their lives for you. They will not hang on your every word. Plus, they know that if things don’t work out, they will need others to fall back on, and they won’t have those others to fall back on if they spend every free moment with you. So give…”

— Tina Kapinos, thoughtcatalog.com

“The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.”

— Ethan Hawke, Jesse, amazon.com

“I just... I don't wanna be one of those people who are... getting divorced at 52, and falling down into tears, admitting that they never really loved their spouse, and they feel that their life has been... sucked up into a vacuum cleaner! You know, I want a great life”

— Ethan Hawke, Jesse, amazon.com

“Charlotte: 'I'm stuck. Does it get easier?' Bob: 'No.—Yes, it gets easier.' Charlotte: 'Oh yeah? Look at you.' Bob: 'Thanks.'”

— Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Charlotte, Bob, amazon.com

“They enjoy the goal but not the process. But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day.”

— Julie Delpy, Celine, amazon.com

“You realize that most of the people that you meet are trying to get somewhere better, they're trying to make a little bit more cash, trying to get a little more respect, have more people admire them. It's just exhausting.”

— Ethan Hawke, Jesse, amazon.com

“Maybe it's just a sense of entitlement. You know, like whenever you feel like you deserve that new pair of shoes. It's OK to want things as long as you don't get pissed off if you don't get 'em. Right?”

— Ethan Hawke, Jesse, amazon.com

“Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.”

— Ethan Hawke, Jesse, amazon.com

“Charlotte: '25 years. That's uh, well it's impressive.' Bob: 'Well you figure, you sleep one-third of your life, that knocks out eight years of marriage right there. So you're, y'know, down to 16 in change. You know you're just a teenager, at marriage, you can drive it but there's still the occasion…”

— Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Charlotte, Bob, amazon.com

“Bob: 'It gets a whole lot more complicated when you have kids.' Charlotte: 'It's scary.' Bob: 'The most terrifying day of your life is the day the first one is born.' Charlotte: 'Nobody ever tells you that.' Bob: 'Your life, as you know it... is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and…”

— Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Charlotte, Bob, amazon.com

“Frances: 'I'm poor.' Benji: 'That's actually offensive to poor people.'”

— Benji, Greta Gerwig, Michael Zegen, Frances, amazon.com

“It's that thing when you're with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it... but it's a party... and you're both talking to other people, and you're laughing and shining... and you look across the room and catch each other's eyes... but - but not because you're…”

— Greta Gerwig, Frances, amazon.com

“Amongst some of the Old Soul's greatest achievements in life include the ability to live with inner peace, even amid the troubles of life. As all is passing, the Old Soul understands the importance of non-attachment to physical and immaterial things.”

— Aletheia Luna, amazon.com

“Respectable and elite careers are of no interest to the Old Soul who is much too tired to join in with the ‘my house is bigger than your house’ games of society. If the Old Soul has to work, any job will usually do. It's very uncommon to find Old Souls in prestigious careers, unless they have some h…”

— Aletheia Luna, amazon.com