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Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they say."
"What?" Vimes sudden rage was like a thunderclap. "Who says that? When has that ever been true? It's never been true! It's the kind of thing people without power say to make it all seem less bloody awful, but it's just words, it never makes any difference - ~ Terry Pratchett
Irony Of Life quotes by Terry Pratchett
It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power. ~ John Stuart Mill
Irony Of Life quotes by John Stuart Mill
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. ~ Charlie Chaplin
Irony Of Life quotes by Charlie Chaplin
Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now. ~ Elizabeth Reyes
Irony Of Life quotes by Elizabeth Reyes
Maybe it mattered so much because it was only bound to be temporary. Sometimes the irony of life is bittersweet like that, over before it started yet never really had a chance to begin.
We spend far too long trying to find reason, clarity or whatever comfort one is needing to understand chaos without appreciating the beauty in the arrival of something that ignited a growth in you.
In a world filled with billions, what a miracle to have shared something so deep, even if it was never meant to stay. ~ Nikki Rowe
Irony Of Life quotes by Nikki Rowe
Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen. ~ Neel Mukherjee
Irony Of Life quotes by Neel Mukherjee
The irony of life
Is our greatest fear is to forget,
Yet it's the only certain fate
That anything has ever met.
We know one day our earth
Will find itself victim to time,
That nothing will be left
To tell of your story or mine,
And still through life we rush
Scrambling for something to remember,
Perish the thought that ash be ash
And not the memory of an ember. ~ Erin Hanson
Irony Of Life quotes by Erin Hanson
Food- the only thing that the fortunate ones put aside to satisfy their fancy dietary plans and work load while the less fortunate ones work to earn. ~ Adhish Mazumder
Irony Of Life quotes by Adhish Mazumder
The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces. ~ Marie Lu
Irony Of Life quotes by Marie Lu
I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death.
(Page 94) ~ Neena Verma
Irony Of Life quotes by Neena Verma
„What kind of stupid trip is this? So far, I've been assaulted, insulted, arrested, and now I'm tied to a chair by a bunch of vampires in case they crave a little O negative at lunch. And my boyfriend is out there somewhere, dodging sunbeams. This sucks! ~ Rachel Caine
Irony Of Life quotes by Rachel Caine
We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them. ~ William Hazlitt
Irony Of Life quotes by William Hazlitt
Kill every dog, every cat, she said slowly. Kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish. Anyone objects, kill them too. ~ George Saunders
Irony Of Life quotes by George Saunders
An educated woman is a worthless woman. ~ Confucius
Irony Of Life quotes by Confucius
Irony of life – GOD will always make you do things which you never want to. ~ Aman Jassal
Irony Of Life quotes by Aman Jassal
It's ironic how your comfort zone can be tiring sometimes. ~ Ahmed Mostafa
Irony Of Life quotes by Ahmed Mostafa
If I had but the time and you had but the brain ~ Lewis Carroll
Irony Of Life quotes by Lewis Carroll
The irony of life is a twisted game; but my god you learn fast, the ins and outs of how to play your part the best you can. ~ Nikki Rowe
Irony Of Life quotes by Nikki Rowe
Monotony kills the heart. Ironically, monotony is what keeps the heart working. ~ Soumeet Lanka
Irony Of Life quotes by Soumeet Lanka
Wouldn't you know it. My ship finally comes in and I'm at lunch. ~ Kait Carson
Irony Of Life quotes by Kait Carson
I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova
Irony Of Life quotes by Ljupka Cvetanova
One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that. ~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Irony Of Life quotes by Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Irony Of Life quotes by Richelle E. Goodrich
My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren't glitter, well, that only left one other option. ~ Rachel Vincent
Irony Of Life quotes by Rachel Vincent
The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.To explain - since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake. The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife. ~ Douglas Adams
Irony Of Life quotes by Douglas Adams
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. ~ Ellen Glasgow
Irony Of Life quotes by Ellen Glasgow
The irony of life is we live to work and work to live ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Irony Of Life quotes by Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe. ~ Keith Caserta
Irony Of Life quotes by Keith Caserta
«Such is the irony of life,» Kruppe proclaimed, raising one pastry-filled hand over his head, «that one learns to distrust the obvious, surrendering instead to insidious suspicion and confused conclusion. But, is Kruppe deceived? Can an eel swim? Hurrah, these seeming muddy waters are home to Kruppe, and his eyes are wide with wonder.» ~ Steven Erikson
Irony Of Life quotes by Steven Erikson
Most people can afford healthcare and education in the age group when both these things are not relevant. ~ D. S. Pandit
Irony Of Life quotes by D. S. Pandit
But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking to form itself, first of all to decide the nature of its surface, to what bodies it should turn its light, to which its dark side, without first letting the harmony of centrifugal and centripetal forces realize [*realisere*] its existence [*Existents*] and letting the rest come of itself. One must learn first to know himself before knowing anything else (γνῶθι σε αυτόν). Not until a man has inwardly understood himself and then sees the course he is to take does his life gain peace and meaning; only then is he free of the irksome, sinister traveling companion―that irony of life which manifests itself in the sphere of knowledge and invites true knowing to begin with a not-knowing (Socrates), just as God created the world from nothing. But in the waters of morality it is especially at home to those who still have not entered the tradewinds of virtue. Here it tumbles a person about in a horrible way, for a time lets him feel happy and content in his resolve to go ahead along the right path, then hurls him into the abyss of despair. Often it lulls a man to sleep with the thought, "After all, things cannot be otherwise," only to awaken him suddenly to a rigorous interrogation. Frequently it seems to let a veil of forgetfulness fall over the past, only to make every single trifle appear in a strong light again. When he struggles along ~ Søren Kierkegaard
Irony Of Life quotes by Søren Kierkegaard
Whatever their story, Eve was breathing easy now - for the moment forgetful, vulnerable, at peace. It's a purposeful irony of life, I suppose, that we never get to see ourselves in that state. We can only pay witness to our waking reflection, which to one degree or another is always fretting or afraid. Maybe that's why young parents find it so beguiling to spy on their children when they're fast asleep. ~ Amor Towles
Irony Of Life quotes by Amor Towles
Blood that was warm has now run cold
bled every day have hearts become old
Telling I am the story of my past
and of the ghosts at which it is aghast

Life as a child was a wonderful rhapsody
Free from the fetters of rational prosody
Naively making brute reality a parody
Revelling in a soul filled with life's melody

Poverty struck and child became destitute
wailing and whimpering like a wretched prostitute
Of pleasure and pain does a society constitute
for Man is not for God to substitute

Life is a parody of paradoxical Irony
Fate rules not without a touch of Tyranny
While the rich belch on their goblets of honey
the wretched etch on the tablets of agony ~ Prabhukrishna M
Irony Of Life quotes by Prabhukrishna M
The great incestuous wish is to flow on, one with time, to merge the great image of the beyond with the here and now. A fatuous, suicidal wish that is constipated by words and paralyzed by thought. ~ Henry Miller
Irony Of Life quotes by Henry Miller
I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others. ~ Jonathan Kieran
Irony Of Life quotes by Jonathan Kieran
To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference. ~ Gary Inbinder
Irony Of Life quotes by Gary Inbinder
The irony of life is like a brothel without prostitutes--but don't you worry, prostitutes don't need of a brothel, to exercise their profession. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Irony Of Life quotes by Efrat Cybulkiewicz
The irony of life is that the child begins to become an adult when he starts to live alone and he loses the security provided by those who love him and are always close to him. ~ Mark Curl
Irony Of Life quotes by Mark Curl
I suppose longevity requires giving up life's pleasures, one by one, until there's nothing left. ~ Gary Inbinder
Irony Of Life quotes by Gary Inbinder
People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories ... ~ Geoff Dyer
Irony Of Life quotes by Geoff Dyer
I find it really fascinating that while in an attempt to look beautiful we tend to go for what's easily acceptable.
But when it comes to portraits, it is only our facial flaws that make that picture worth its while, setting it apart.
Isn't it amazing to find that beauty is something that makes us alike? While our flaws are the real contributors to our uniqueness. ~ Mansi Laus Deo
Irony Of Life quotes by Mansi Laus Deo
Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful. ~ Linda S. Godfrey
Irony Of Life quotes by Linda S. Godfrey
The biggest irony of life is that rich people actually lead poor lives! They spend their entire life making money and creating wealth and thus lose out on living a life filled with true knowledge, happiness, and passion! ~ Avijeet Das
Irony Of Life quotes by Avijeet Das
Scientifically, the head is above the heart and so perhaps we have to fall not rise in love. ~ Subhralin Thakuria
Irony Of Life quotes by Subhralin Thakuria
A man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri
Irony Of Life quotes by E.A. Bucchianeri
The irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can. ~ Gertrude Atherton
Irony Of Life quotes by Gertrude Atherton
Irony; we want to dance like robots and want robots to dance like us. ~ Vikrmn
Irony Of Life quotes by Vikrmn
Had I only known my letters
Would be of such importance
I'd empty myself on paper
Every single morning'

And it was for such reason,
as she read his little stanza,
that she decided to stamp
one
final
letter:

'Every single morning
I'd empty myself on paper
You were my greater importance
That's why I wrote you letters. ~ Mie Hansson
Irony Of Life quotes by Mie Hansson
The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer
Irony Of Life quotes by Mary Ann Shaffer
Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it. ~ Tan Twan Eng
Irony Of Life quotes by Tan Twan Eng
You only know of existence, once you rebel. You only know of life, once you die. ~ Lionel Suggs
Irony Of Life quotes by Lionel Suggs
The Dream I Dream For You, My Child
...
I hope you search for four-leaf clovers,
grin back at Cheshire moons,
breathe in the springtime breezes,
and dance with summer loons.
I hope you gaze in wide-eyed wonder
at the buzzing firefly
and rest beneath the sunlit trees
as butterflies fly by.
I hope you gather simple treasures
of pebbles, twigs, and leaves
and marvel at the fragile web
the tiny spider weaves.
I hope you read poetry and fairy tales
and sing silly, made-up songs,
and pretend to be a superhero
righting this world's wrongs.
I hope your days are filled with magic
and your nights with happy dreams,
and you grow up knowing that happiness
is found in simple things.
The dream I dream for you, my child,
as you discover, learn, and grow,
is that you find these simple joys
wherever in life you go. ~ L.R. Knost
Irony Of Life quotes by L.R. Knost
There are two ways in which we may attain control over our activity. The first is confidence in the power of our own will; to know that if we have failed today, tomorrow we will not do so. The second is to have our eyes wide open, and to watch keenly our activity in all aspects of life. It is in the dark that we fall, but in the light we can see where we are going. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Irony Of Life quotes by Hazrat Inayat Khan
That day, after barely resurfacing from a seventy-two meter warm up dive into the Blue Hole, Mevoli went into cardiac arrest and died. This time, he wasn't able to bring himself back. When asked to comment on the accident, Natalia Molchanova, regarded by many as the greatest freehold breath diver in the world, said, "the biggest problem with freedivers . . . [is] now they go too deep too fast." Less than two years later, off the coast of Spain, Molchanova took a quick recreational dive of her
own. She deliberately ran though her usual set of breathing exercises, attached a light weight to her belt to help her descend, and swam downward, alone. It was
supposed to be a head-clearing reset. But, Molchanova didn't come back either.
And that's the problem that free diving shares with many other state-shifting techniques: return too soon, and you'll always wonder if you could have gone
deeper. Go too far, and you might not make it back. ~ Steven Kotler
Irony Of Life quotes by Steven Kotler
I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God. ~ Kallam Anji Reddy
Irony Of Life quotes by Kallam Anji Reddy
For octopi, ink is a defense mechanism, a means of escape. It is for me as well. Octopi surround themselves with clouds of ink in order to disappear before the clouds dissipate. Sometimes they also create hovering blots of ink that mimic their own shape, so predators will attack the ink and not them. Every time I write about my family, I instinctively obscure the truth with a cloud of self-protection, and invent versions of my life that give me a chance to evade the attacks I dread. The only way I know to get past the sense of threat is to go ahead and release the ink and then slowly wait for the cloud to clear. That might be revision. It might mean time. It might mean a lifetime of time. ~ Briallen Hopper
Irony Of Life quotes by Briallen Hopper
They would tell you that governments could not manage things as economically as private individuals; they would repeat and repeat that, and think they were saying something! They could not see that "economical" management by masters meant simply that they, the people, were worked harder and ground closer and paid less!

They were wage-earners and servants, at the mercy of exploiters whose one thought was to get as much out of them as possible; and they were taking an interest in the process, were anxious lest it should not be done thoroughly enough! Was it not honestly a trial to listen to an argument such as that?

And yet there were things even worse. You would begin talking to some poor devil who had worked in one shop for the last thirty years, and had never been able to save a penny; who left home every morning at six o'clock, to go and tend a machine, and come back at night too tired to take his clothes off; who had never had a week's vacation in his life, had never traveled, never had an adventure, never learned anything, never hoped anything - and when you started to tell him about Socialism he would sniff and say, "I'm not interested in that - I'm an individualist!" And then he would go on to tell you that Socialism was "paternalism," and that if it ever had its way the world would stop progressing.

It was enough to make a mule laugh, to hear arguments like that; and yet it was no laughing matter, as you found out - for how many million ~ Upton Sinclair
Irony Of Life quotes by Upton Sinclair
What is Strange and disconcerting about Jesus is the fact that he rarely makes demands. The style of teaching he engages in is not rote on memorization or indoctrination but Socratic, propositional and inductive. The listener is invited to explore and come to a conclusion. It is the desire of Christ for his audience to reach a conclusion and not be told what to think.
Stories, sayings, reversals, parables and other forms of teaching used by Jesus are not good teaching tools for people who seek simplistic answers. Jesus teaches but requires more of a listener. We are invited to join the journey, wrestle with our assumptions, confront our spiritual bigotry and struggle with the humbling mystery and profound profundity of God.
This is HARD faith, especially for the modern reader. We want the speaker to tell us what to think. We want our stories tidy, without complication, and we do not want questions designed to coerce us beyond easy answers. This is the LIFE and MINISTRY of Jesus. He was a walking mobile university, a theological gadfly, a spiritual teacher and Savior who cannot be contained by tradition, conformity or assimilation. Jesus is loose in the world quietly upending all assumptions, ideas and concepts we hold true. ~ Otis Moss II
Irony Of Life quotes by Otis Moss II
Life is like taking a swim in the ocean,
you never really know what to expect when you dive in.
the worst part is,
it doesn't matter how you get into the water.
Weather you dive in head first,
or take every step with caution.
when the tidal wave hits you like a ton of bricks,
it's up to you to decide if your going to let that wave suck you in,
or if your going to fight
till you feel the reassuring worm sand beneath your feet.
like that wave,
life will not give up the fight,
so why should we just let it win. ~ Tatyana Sumakova
Irony Of Life quotes by Tatyana Sumakova
But it was one thing to know that your privilege was unearned; it was another thing entirely to feel that your sadness was, too - to have to be so pitifully glad, so pitifully sorry, for the modest perks of a dull and diligent middle-class life (TV, and Target candles, and a trip to Six Flags every year). ~ Jennifer DuBois
Irony Of Life quotes by Jennifer DuBois
[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone! ~ Albert Camus
Irony Of Life quotes by Albert Camus
We know Jesus was God. But He was also a man-He got tired; He got hungry; He knew what it was to have crowds pressing around Him all the time; He knew what it was to have His privacy invaded. But He kept right on letting the crowds into His life. He kept on teaching, healing, confronting the powers of hell- and never a cross or impatient word. ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Irony Of Life quotes by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
...there is something Russian about this particular use of the eye as an aggressive and defensive weapon. In Russian literature there is endless variation in the use of the eye as a soulful receptor, as an avid grasper, and as the very organ for mutual soulful surrender. In regard to the great models of political and literary life, however, the emphasis is on the eye as an incorruptible instrument for the manipulation of the future. Gorky's description of Tolstoy is typical: 'With sharp eyes, from which neither a single pebble nor a single thought could hide itself, he looked, measured, tested, compared.' Or again, his eyes are 'screwed up as though straining to look into the future'.
Equally typical is Trotsky's description of Lenin:
When Lenin, his left eye narrowed, receives a wireless containing a speech he resembles a devilishly clever peasant who does not let himself be confused by any words, or deluded by any phrases. That is highly intensified peasant shrewdness, lifted to the point of inspiration. ~ Erik H. Erikson
Irony Of Life quotes by Erik H. Erikson
He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him. Nature cared nothing for prejudice. Men and women were like the animals on the farm at Helford, she supposed; there was a common law of attraction for all living things, some similarity of skin or touch, and they would go to one another. This was no choice made with the mind. Animals did not reason, neither did the birds in the air. Mary was no hypocrite; she was bred to the soil, and she had lived too long with birds and beasts, had watched them mate. and bear their young, and die. There was precious little romance in nature, and she would not look for it in her own life. ~ Daphne Du Maurier
Irony Of Life quotes by Daphne Du Maurier
The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed. ~ Janet Morris
Irony Of Life quotes by Janet Morris
Mastering our thoughts can only be achieved after we truly understand what reality is. Thus, it is time to shatter your pre-conceived concept of reality. First, the majority of what you perceive as reality exists only in your mind, and, chances are, you spend most hours of your life in this illusion. ~ Alaric Hutchinson
Irony Of Life quotes by Alaric Hutchinson
Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper. ~ Richard Wagner
Irony Of Life quotes by Richard Wagner
If one sides with pickpockets by saying, 'what's wrong with what he is doing? He doesn't have any food so of course he'll pick pockets!' Now even when he is not a pickpocket himself, by supporting such actions, he will become a pick pocket in his next life. The poor man, although he makes the mistake in ignorance (in darkness, within), the price he will pay in brightness [that can be seen with 5 senses, the outer world]. ~ Dada Bhagwan
Irony Of Life quotes by Dada Bhagwan
I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't. ~ Beth Gutcheon
Irony Of Life quotes by Beth Gutcheon
On a frosty winter afternoon, I rode in sight of Thornfield Hall. On a stile in Hay Lane I saw a quiet little figure sitting by itself. I had no presentiment of what it would be to me; no inward warning that the arbitress of my life
my genius for good or evil
waited there in humble guise.
When once I had pressed the frail shoulder, something new
a fresh sap and sense
stole into my frame. It was well I had learnt that this elf must return to me
that it belonged to my house down below- -or I could not have felt it pass away from under my hand, and seen it vanish behind the dim hedge, without singular regret. I heard you come home that night, Jane, though probably you were not aware that I thought of you or watched for you. ~ Charlotte Bronte
Irony Of Life quotes by Charlotte Bronte
Through His resurrection He gave us the promise of eternal life. We are forgiven. We were and still are sinners, but we are forgiven! "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed." John 8:36 (NKJV) ~ Cheryl Zelenka
Irony Of Life quotes by Cheryl Zelenka
Alex smiled then, a small thing, a glimpse of the girl lurking inside her, a happy, less haunted girl. That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you'd been before life took away your belief in the possible. It gave back the world all lonely children longed for. That was what Lethe had done for him. Maybe it could do that for Alex as well. ~ Leigh Bardugo
Irony Of Life quotes by Leigh Bardugo
The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. In the left-hand corner is a tiny ocean the size of a palm, and there, I can barely make it out, the two legs of a man who fell headlong into the sea. This is called the Fall of Icarus. Compared to everyday life, the fall of an idealist who flew too high with candle-wax wings is an unremarkable tragedy. ~ Hwang Sok-yong
Irony Of Life quotes by Hwang Sok-yong
For Felix Henriot, with his admixture of foreign blood, was philosopher as well as vagabond, a strong poetic and religious strain sometimes breaking out through fissures in his complex nature. He had seen much life; had read many books. The passionate desire of youth to solve the world's big riddles had given place to a resignation filled to the brim with wonder. Anything might be true. Nothing surprised him. The most outlandish beliefs, for all he knew, might fringe truth somewhere. He had escaped that cheap cynicism with which disappointed men soothe their vanity when they realise that an intelligible explanation of the universe lies beyond their powers. He no longer expected final answers. ~ Algernon Blackwood
Irony Of Life quotes by Algernon Blackwood
Help!' he shrieked shrilly in a voice strangling in its own emotion, as the policemen carried him to the open doors in the rear of the ambulance and threw him inside. 'Police! Help! Police!' The doors were shut and bolted, and the ambulance raced away. There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him. Yossarian smiled wryly at the futile and ridiculous cry for aid, then saw with a start that the words were ambiguous, realized with alarm that they were not perhaps, intended as a call for police but as a heroic warning from the grave by a doomed friend to everyone who was not a policeman with a club and gun and a mob of other policemen with clubs and guns to back him up. 'Help! Police!' the man had cried, and he could have been shouting of danger. ~ Joseph Heller
Irony Of Life quotes by Joseph Heller
Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on. ~ Fay Weldon
Irony Of Life quotes by Fay Weldon
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Irony Of Life quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
I replaced my lip with my thumb as my nervous chewing object. "I've taken over your workspace. Your hours. Your life."
"You've taken over the very heart of me. Blah, blah. What do you want to do about it?" He tilted his head and drew his ribbon through his fingers. "No, I'll tell you what I want. I wa-"
"I'm sorry!"
"Do you hear me complaining, Crown? Do you actually know me to do anything I don't want to do? ~ Anne Zoelle
Irony Of Life quotes by Anne Zoelle
I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life - though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope. ~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Irony Of Life quotes by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought. ~ Charles Bukowski
Irony Of Life quotes by Charles Bukowski
And health in art - what is that? It has nothing to do with a sane criticism of life. There is more health in Baudelaire than there is in [Kingsley]. Health is the artist's recognition of the limitations of the form in which he works. It is the honour and the homage which he gives to the material he uses - whether it be language with its glories, or marble or pigment with their glories - knowing that the true brotherhood of the arts consists not in their borrowing one another's method, but in their producing, each of them by its own individual means, each of them by keeping its objective limits, the same unique artistic delight. The delight is like that given to us by music - for music is the art in which form and matter are always one, the art whose subject cannot be separated from the method of its expression, the art which most completely realises the artistic ideal, and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring. ~ Oscar Wilde
Irony Of Life quotes by Oscar Wilde
Harriet dreamt of someone well dressed and flamboyant, who spoke like the lead in a black and white film, who drank champagne like other people drank Carling and who could talk about history and philosophy and life for hours, without making themselves sound like an idiot. Someone who made romantic gestures, who was generous to everyone and extravagant towards her. Someone, for preference, who rowed and had the muscles to prove it. When she was really having a bad day, someone with a title. Every time a well-meaning access scheme leaflet tried to reassure her and all the other state school applicants that Oxford wasn't wall to wall Old Etonians permanently dressed in tuxedos, she died a little inside. ~ Georgiana Derwent
Irony Of Life quotes by Georgiana Derwent
These days, nearly everyone claims to be democratic. I have even heard it claimed that the Chinese Communist Party is democratic. 'Capitalist', by contrast, is a word too often used as a term of abuse to be much heard in polite company. How do the institutions of the democratic state and those of the market economy relate to one another? Do corporations play an active part in politics, through lobbyists and campaign contributions? Do governments play an active part in economic life, through subsidies, tariffs and other market-distorting devices, or through regulation? What is the right balance to be struck ~ Niall Ferguson
Irony Of Life quotes by Niall Ferguson
Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious. ~ Joseph Stalin
Irony Of Life quotes by Joseph Stalin
A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart - a heart that is astonished at grace. ~ John Piper
Irony Of Life quotes by John Piper
You are not going to find the meaning of life hidden under a rock written by someone else. You'll find it by giving meaning to life from inside yourself ~ Daniel H. Pink
Irony Of Life quotes by Daniel H. Pink
My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening. ~ James Comey
Irony Of Life quotes by James Comey
The new approach to health care will feature the healing power of story. In the clear understanding that finding meaning in any life passage may be at the heart of healing, our healers -declared or undeclared - will help people use the power of dreaming to move beyond personal history into a bigger story that contains the juice and sense of purpose to get them through. ~ Robert Moss
Irony Of Life quotes by Robert Moss
You don't have to wait for something "meaningful" to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The "waiting to start living" syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Irony Of Life quotes by Eckhart Tolle
In most people's minds, fossils and Evolution go hand in hand. In reality, fossils are a great embarrassment to Evolutionary theory and offer strong support for the concept of Creation. If Evolution were true, we should find literally millions of fossils that show how one kind of life slowly and gradually changed to another kind of life. But missing links are the trade secret, in a sense, of paleontology. The point is, the links are still missing. What we really find are gaps that sharpen up the boundaries between kinds. It's those gaps which provide us with the evidence of Creation of separate kinds. As a matter of fact, there are gaps between each of the major kinds of plants and animals. Transition forms are missing by the millions. What we do find are separate and complex kinds, pointing to Creation. ~ Gary Parker
Irony Of Life quotes by Gary Parker
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. ~ Italo Calvino
Irony Of Life quotes by Italo Calvino
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough? ~ William Morris
Irony Of Life quotes by William Morris
Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life. ~ Maggie Stiefvater
Irony Of Life quotes by Maggie Stiefvater
Like a clock of life on which the seconds race, the page number hangs over the characters in a novel. Where is the reader who has not once lifted to it a fleeting, fearful glance? ~ Walter Benjamin
Irony Of Life quotes by Walter Benjamin
It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Irony Of Life quotes by Eckhart Tolle
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