Life Lessons Quote by Mervyn Peake — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;”

“For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.”

“But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land, over the fields of the slain, paced to the rhythm of the blood's red bugles. To be alone and evil! To be a god at bay. What was more absolute?”

“La vita. Comincia e ricomincia, un'infinità di volte. Un inizio dopo l'altro, finchè non arriva la fine. A volte lo sappiamo, a volte no, ma la vita ricomicia in ogni istante”

“Your name, your efforts, your duas are known in the heavens. You matter more than you realize.”

“If you ever yearn for success, plan and execute with excellence, for that is a better way to prove your self-worth.”

“This was where wanting to touch his forehead, wantin to see if it felt as smooth as it looked like, had gotten me; this was where it all came out. My eyes were all the way open, and I saw I was livin with a loveless, pitiless man who believed anything he could reach with his arms and grasp with his hands was his to take, even his own daughter.”

“Success is a decision to stand firm after so much has been taken, until you get what you wanted, or more than what you expected.”

“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”