Life Quotes Quote by Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”

“Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?”

“I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?”

“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!”

““I know there is no straight road”

“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”