Life Like A Train Quotes

#1. You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.

Philip Larkin

#2. Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. It was like a freight train, hitting hard and fast, and in her entire life she'd never felt anything like it. It was as if he'd climbed inside her body, knew what she wanted before she wanted it, and knew how to give it to her. It was like being lost and coming home.

Jill Shalvis

#4. I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#5. There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.

Will Smith

#6. I had a stroke in 1985 ... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

Hugh Hefner

#7. None of us-teacher or taught-realised how an imagined romantic life can sustain a possibility, a hope, and remain like that. Like parallel train tracks, it runs alongside, but will never meet, the life you're are living.

Anna Funder

#8. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in it's focus. To find oneself trapped in any one bead, no matter what it's hue, can be deadly.

Maggie Nelson

#9. Its sound in her soul was a distant fast train. Love did not bring happiness, it did not last, and it ended in pain. She did not want to believe this, and she was not certain that she did; perhaps she feared it was true in her own life, and her fear had become a feeling that tasted like disbelief.

Andre Dubus

#10. I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

Sarah Jones

#11. The train brings out some of the best and the worst memories of my life. I like to watch the train. It makes me sad but gives hope as well. It connects me to my family, which I abandoned many years ago. I fled away from my family and home by a train only.

Ravi Ranjan Goswami

#12. And life isn't like the movies: There's no ominous swell to the sound track, no fatalistic overhead shot, nothing to tell you that this moment is the one your life will turn on; instead it's like a train silently switching tracks, sheering off midjourney into a whole other part of the night.

Paul Murray

#13. Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. About her husband, i did actually enquire, but she held her private life so fucking tightly, like a tourist clutching a handbag on the A train,..

Peter Carey

#15. It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

Fannie Flagg

#16. No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats.

Judah Friedlander

#17. I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).

Sabrina Ward Harrison

#18. Ronnie offered, "I don't want my life to pass me by."
Filling Ronnie's glass again, Sissy promised, "It won't."
"It's already started. It's whizzing by like a freight train.

Shelly Laurenston

#19. Train Like an Athlete, Eat Like a Bodybuilder.

Elliott Hulse

#20. I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

Misty Copeland

#21. I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.

Maddie Ziegler

#22. When our Journey of life is like a Train with Some Stops but Always can reach to a destination which can make ourselves and others happy, then we are on the good way.

Jan Jansen

#23. Life is like a train: some are entering it to begin the trip while others are living it because the trip is over

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#24. I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young!

Julie Burchill

#25. Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. There are so many days
when living stops and pulls up and sits
and waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski

#27. Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don't know
where I'm heading
with whom or why
all I know is that
I will never, ever
pass from here again
all I know is I'm skidding forward
on this track of life.

Sanober Khan

#28. Life is rather like a long train ride; you may encounter a great many people, but looking out from your own small compartment of self you catch only a glimpse of other people's joy or despair.

Faith Baldwin