Top 100 Quotes About Former Life
#1. The counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#2. A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.
Richard Steele
#3. If fourteen people believe they were Cleopatra in a former life, does that mean that Cleopatra had split personality disorder?
Patricia Briggs
#4. Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.
Max Brooks
#5. He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.
Stephen Dobyns
#6. There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
Simone De Beauvoir
#7. In his former life though, as the cool guy, he would never have picked up a book, especially one with poems in it.
Shaun Meeks
#8. This is how I found the strength not to get on with my former life. This is how I found the courage not to pick up the same old pieces.
Chuck Palahniuk
#9. This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why.
Marc Forgione
#10. As former physicist Al Slawsky put it in the early 1990s, "It was a bad year for value investing. In my former life, there was never a 'bad year' for gravity.
Richard R. Lindsey
#11. In my spare time I like to stare at shit. I mean, not literally. I like to stare at the TV, or the Internet, or a book, or cat videos. There's a lot of sitting very still and not moving involved. I suspect in a former life I was probably a statue because I am profoundly good at it.
Jenny Lawson
#12. Then between Sixth Street and Seventh Street, my mood was vastly improved when I passed a good-looking dog, a dark brown Lab. We locked eyes for a moment - two lovers from a former life reunited - and I felt quite happy.
Jonathan Ames
#13. I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry Rollins
#14. It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
Martial
#15. He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
Milan Kundera
#16. On the threshold she paused ... for perchance the idea of entering, all alone, and all so changed, the home of so intense a former life was more dreary and desolate than even she could bear.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#17. I want to live our own lives, make our own decision and not live in the shadow of a former life"...... We owe ourself that much.
Danielle Fuller
#18. The word decease literally means "exodus" or "going out." The imagery is that of the children of Israel leaving Egypt and their former life of bondage, slavery, and hardship for the Promised Land. So death to the Christian is an exodus from the limitations, the burdens, and the bondage of this life.
Billy Graham
#19. But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself included. it kept me from being an industrialist. it allowed me to endure some women that most men would never be able to live with. it gave me space, a pause. it helped me to write this.
Charles Bukowski
#20. I entertain the idea that if my present life is the punishment for a former life, then I would never want to meet myself as the self of this former life.
Sam Pink
#21. But, miraculously, something of her former life remained, her last link to the person she had been before she had become so utterly alone. A part of Tariq still alive inside her, sprouting tiny arms, growing translucent hands.
Khaled Hosseini
#22. Oy, your karma really sucks, bubbee. You musta been Hitler in a former life or something.
Gemma Halliday
#23. Surreal existence. She had been a serial killer. Was she, had she been, a surreal killer? Was her former life surreal and now this, this unknown, was it real? A surreal killer. A cereal killer. What was a cereal killer? Ah, she knew, it was the person who ate the last of the Cheerios.
Anna Schilke
#24. Of course, you'll defend Jay," says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to think as I do."
"But Rango, you couldn't respect someone who surrendered an opinion merely to please you . It would be hypocrisy.
Anais Nin
#25. Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,
the ties that have made others dependent on us,
and would cut them in two.
George Eliot
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
Julian Barnes
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Sometimes life itself rewards our early investments.
Dixie Waters
#35. 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
#36. Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?
Andrew Ashling
#37. 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
#38. The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
Parker J. Palmer
#39. 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
#40. A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.
Debasish Mridha
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
Gladys Knight
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
Michael J. Fox
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.
Leon Brown
#54. 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
#55. The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people
Robert Kiyosaki
#57. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
Keith Richards
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
Benjamin Disraeli
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Did you ever catch a glimpse of what you could be, if you really tried at life?
Suzanne Hayes
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Everyone on this earth was born for a reason, what's yours?
Frank Sonnenberg
#80. 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
#82. Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.
Alison Weir
#83. Life ain't all burritos and strippers, my friend. - TRUE FACT
Darynda Jones
#84. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius
#85. It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.
Jamaica Kincaid
#86. God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
Henry Ward Beecher
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
Matthew McConaughey
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. your shoes are carrying your most valuable possession - your life. Do not delay. Everything else can be replaced,
Ruta Sepetys
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
Jonathan Edwards
#99. And by the power of a word, I begin my life again.
Paul Eluard
#100. If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.
Dan Wells
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