I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that’s what life is like. It rhymes, but not in the way you expect.
– from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
Tag: Quotes on Life
There are certain steps you take …
There are certain steps you take in life that you can’t easily turn back from. So take them with care. You don’t want to make a fool of yourself.
– from The Man Who Died Twice book by Richard Osman
Life was opportunity, a chest of …
Life was opportunity, a chest of drawers to open, one after the other.
– from Hello Beautiful book by Ann Napolitano
Life is like an extremely difficult …
Life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you’re born, you’re given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.
– from Ready Player Two book by Ernest Cline
I tell you, this life doesn’t …
I tell you, this life doesn’t simply come with its share of unpredictability; surprise is its most conspicuous feature.
– from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
Much of life is timing and …
Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.
– from An American Marriage book by Tayari Jones
Life is one long motherfucking imaginary …
Life is one long motherfucking imaginary game that has no scoreboard, no referee, and isn’t over until we’re dead and buried.
– from Can’t Hurt Me book by David Goggins
Life is our résumé. It is …
Life is our résumé. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
I believe everything we do in …
I believe everything we do in life is part of a plan. Sometimes the plan goes as intended, and sometimes it doesn’t. That’s part of the plan.
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey