Life Quotes
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Transmitting one's flaws through procreation to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
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To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy.
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It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a whole performative layer to what we do because we feel like there's a private TV show viewing our lives.
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I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.
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You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.
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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.
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I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
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I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?
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Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it.
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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.
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I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.
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We are all, right now, living the life we choose.
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When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
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The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
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Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
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Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
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We kind of reached this point in life where we don't really want to put out anything just to put something out. We really don't want it to be like, 'Two years are up. You've had your break; now do another record and get it out there.'
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I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
