Life Quotes Quote by Guy de Maupassant — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“For a number of years he had lived, eaten, laughed, loved, hoped, like everyone else. And for him it was over, over for good. A life! A few days, and then nothing! You're born, you grow up, you're happy, you wait, then you die. Goodbye! Man or woman, you'll never return to this earth! And yet each of us bears within him the fierce, unrealizable longing for eternity, each of us is a kind of universe within the universe, and each of us soon vanishes completely into the dunghill of new organisms. Plants, animals, men, stars, worlds, everything quickens, then dies, in order to transform itself. And nothing ever returns, whether insect, man, or planet!”

“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”

“In fact living is dying.”

“The only certainty is death.”

“Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.”

“If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.”

“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

“Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.”

““COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT”