Life Quotes Quote by Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.”

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.”

“I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.”