Life Quotes

"I finally understand what living means."

"I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?"

"Life is too short to be wasted on regrets."

"I'm alive, I live, I have a body, I can walk around in it."

"A ritual, that's all it was, a moment of playacting."

"I believe you are right that in the end it is a matter of what one estimates one's own life to have been worth."

"Dignity is not something one can simply assume."

"One must learn to live with one's regrets."

"I don't take no stock in dead people."

"I couldn't understand what he meant by sivilizing me, for it was rough living in the house all the time."

"In the end, I choose to live, not merely exist."

"I used to think of my body as an instrument of pleasure, or a means of transportation."

"We lived as we always lived, as human beings do, in the continuation of everyday life"

"I don't think that's what we're for. I think we're for donating organs."

"Whatever moves is alive. Whatever is alive seeks to kill."

"One belongs to the world once one is born; there is no getting out of it."

"The widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me."

"I didn't take no stock in dead people."

"It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was."

"I was less dead in my invisibility than I was alive."

"I found meaning in my invisibility."

"We lived, but not really."

"How small and mean her life had become."

"History is important. But it's the small things that matter in life."

"Anything can happen to anyone. And it often does."

"Her sadness was a palpable thing."

"Small things leave their mark on people."

"The widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me."

"I don't take no stock in dead people."

"It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between doubt and revelation."