Top 100 Life Gets In The Way Quotes
#1. Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality.
Menna Anwar
#2. That's what happens to dreams," Charlotte said. "Life gets in the way.
Jodi Picoult
#3. I like to curl up in a quiet corner and write a good book.
I hate when life gets in the way of my hobbies.
Carrie Olguin
#4. Sometimes your destiny has to change. Sometimes life gets in the way, and you have to change your plans.
Lisa M. Harley
#5. I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
Emma Donoghue
#6. The reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realisation that you can't be all you wanted to be,
Cecelia Ahern
#7. That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.
Jodi Picoult
#8. Life gets in the way of Creativity, but it's up to us not to let it interfere more than necessary.
Gabbo De La Parra
#9. I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life ... I dream too much, work too little.
Sylvia Plath
#10. The thing about life is that life gets in the way.
Al Daltrey
#11. It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.
George A Tice
#12. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.
Julia Hill
#13. We aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings, and not merely the profession of its theology on Sundays.
Robert Baden-Powell
#14. The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.
What is created by us is the degree to which these events touch our life
Neale Donald Walsch
#15. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
Julian Barnes
#16. No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.
Robert Breault
#17. Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you're like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories.
Daniel Radcliffe
#18. There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.
Mark Twain
#19. She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.
Sophie Kinsella
#20. Sometimes life itself rewards our early investments.
Dixie Waters
#21. As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
Candice Millard
#22. Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?
Andrew Ashling
#23. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.
Alex Ebert
#24. The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
Parker J. Palmer
#25. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!
Joyce Meyer
#26. A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
Charles Caleb Colton
#28. But maybe...maybe you have to know where you come from, and what you are, before you run away to become something new.
Tanya Lloyd Kyi
#29. AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with you. Life is fragile, and tomorrow is never a sure thing, so thanks for sharing your lives with me.....
Amelia Hutchins
#30. I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.
Robin Gibb
#31. I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
Gladys Knight
#32. Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on.
Ruth Ozeki
#33. I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.
Michael Eric Dyson
#34. The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.
Paul Simonon
#35. When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
Michael J. Fox
#36. I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the outgoing fun one and the crazy one.
Kendra Wilkinson
#37. Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
Benjamin Whichcote
#38. Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#39. The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.
Leon Brown
#40. The day had been a slowly closing door. The rest of the world moved on out into the stream of life, while I was left stranded and forgotten on the riverbank, at low tide.
Lia Mills
#41. The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people
Robert Kiyosaki
#43. I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.
Walter Mosley
#45. Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are and where you are in life.
D. Alyce Domain
#46. It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#47. To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
Keith Richards
#48. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#49. Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Nicole Krauss
#50. You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.
Erica Jong
#51. As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
Benjamin Disraeli
#52. I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.
Snoop Dogg
#53. Having reached the term of his natural life; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
Henry David Thoreau
#54. I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left you unfulfilled, you can't go around seeking it at other people's doors. Even if it is at the place you're most familiar with, and the sort of act that is your forte.
Haruki Murakami
#55. We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#56. Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.
Vin Diesel
#57. The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#58. When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.
James Weldon Johnson
#59. The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
Salman Rushdie
#60. We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life.
Lisa Hammond
#61. The years would not wait for Zealers and saviors, not for chance nor hope. The erratic line would scribble on until Nyra washed away from life itself, her youth stolen forever by the malediction that was wishing.
Kelly Michelle Baker
#62. Did you ever catch a glimpse of what you could be, if you really tried at life?
Suzanne Hayes
#63. If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.
Charles Caleb Colton
#64. My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.
Trey Anastasio
#65. Everyone on this earth was born for a reason, what's yours?
Frank Sonnenberg
#66. I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a year old. I won't go through all of the details of that.
Jack Nicklaus
#68. Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.
Alison Weir
#69. Life ain't all burritos and strippers, my friend. - TRUE FACT
Darynda Jones
#70. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius
#71. It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.
Jamaica Kincaid
#72. God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
Henry Ward Beecher
#73. It is a celebration of the fact that we were adopted for a purpose and that adoption is an experience that has the potential of teaching us some of life's richest and deepest lessons.
Sherrie Eldridge
#74. ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.
F.B. Newman
#75. Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
Matthew McConaughey
#76. These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
Bill McKibben
#77. I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.
Jessye Norman
#78. In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.
Julia Cameron
#79. your shoes are carrying your most valuable possession - your life. Do not delay. Everything else can be replaced,
Ruta Sepetys
#80. Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.
Abigail Thomas
#81. Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn
John Berryman
#82. It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ...
the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.
Deepak Chopra
#83. If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
Ray Bradbury
#84. Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
Jonathan Edwards
#85. And by the power of a word, I begin my life again.
Paul Eluard
#86. If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.
Dan Wells
#87. For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.
Jane Gardam
#88. There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#89. A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
Daisaku Ikeda
#90. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.
Benedict Freedman
#91. Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.
Jean Ingelow
#92. Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
Markus Zusak
#93. I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.
Shannen Doherty
#94. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.
Paul Neilan
#95. Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.
Jane Clayson
#96. The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything ... from me
Corinne Bailey Rae
#97. I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.
Rokia Traore
#98. The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.
Paulo Coelho
#99. No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be."
"Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?"
"No."
"Then you didn't even get a taste.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
