Life Quotes

"You must take life as it happens, but you should try to make it the life you want."

"I had been happy, I had been sad, I had been content, I had been angry."

"It all comes back to the kite"

"A girl who has no ghosts is lucky."

"How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive"

"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frozen winter's day in 1975."

"Kabul, 1975. The last day of Amir's childhood."

"I felt the child flutter inside me."

"I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye."

"I became what I am today at the age of twelve"

"I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye."

"I have nothing to say of my childhood. It was a small life, small in the ways that matter most."

"Without Richard Parker, I am nothing. He is my raison d'être."

"The world had no use for women like me."

"What is life but a series of violent acts?"

"I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go."

"It is often said that life is a journey. I completely agree."

"Life is a story. You can choose your own ending."

"The ending comes when you least expect it and most need it."

"You never know what's going to happen next."

"I am alive. I am awake. Everything else is negotiable."

"Men are born for careers as cows are born to be eaten."

"It's a strange business"

"You don't start out in life with the understand that you're going to lose"

"The world is getting too strange to live in"

"It always hurts more to have and lose than never to have had at all."

"Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life."

"Life on a lifeboat is a constant negotiation with death."

"Life is full of such conflicts between desire and ability."

"What is pertinent is my life has been a good one, lived according to proper standards."