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Life Quotes by Jenny Downham
- Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
- If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life…
- There's a terrible stillness. I notice a small tear in the wallpaper above her shoulder. I notice finger marks grimed on the light switch. Somewhere…
- when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the…
- Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion…
- Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't…
- I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.
- Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say…
- She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few…
- The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle