Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
—Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realize that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realize, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though you can put your hand out to where things were and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are.
—Helen Macdonald in H is for Hawk
The last thing I need right now is another reminder of how much of my life I wasted on him.
—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride
Most things in life are only as difficult as you allow them to be.
—Gemma Burgess in A Girl Like You
It doesn't make you a bad person to want to live your own life.
—Alexandra Bracken in The Darkest Minds
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.
—Abbi Glines in Fallen Too Far
A life can be defined by its hardships or its blessings. It's all a matter of how you look at it.
—Penelope Ward in Stepbrother Dearest
Her life was beginning to make sense again, although she couldn't say that she was enjoying it. But her mind was clear, and her heart was not constantly as heavy. Only when she thought about him. But she knew that in time, she'd survive it. She had done it before and would again. Eventually the heart repairs.
—Danielle Steel in Miracle
Life's greatest treasures will never be held, purchased or bartered for. They will only be felt.
—Scott Hildreth in Finding Parker
Sometimes life offers you something unexpected, and when it does, you have a responsibility to explore it.
—Katy Regnery in Playing for Love at Deep Haven
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
—Kahlil Gibran
While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life.
—Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
—John D. Rockefeller