Life Quotes Quote by Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.”

“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”

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

“You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep”

“One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.”