Life Quotes Quote by Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”

“Life was not longer something to endure, but to live. ”

“But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--”

“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”

“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

“It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.”

“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.”

“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”