Buddhism Quote by Dōgen Zenji

“Life is a storm. One moment you can be basking in the sunlight, the next you could be shattered against the rocks. What you…

— paraphrased from the Count of Monte Cristo

“And the air is new. And everything, instant by instant, is as it is, preparing to appear. [...] This is the only way I…

— Luigi Pirandello

“...And although thus short, we shorten many ways, Living so little while we are alive; In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight So unawares comes…

— Anne Bradstreet

“Life is from zero to one, sorrow to pain and love to happiness, passing all along with smile on face despite grief and unhappiness,…

— Santosh Kalwar

“The helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human-- feeling as you went-- groping in corners and opening your arms to…

— Alice Sebold

“Have you ever known a moment of bliss? ... Yet behold, only a little later, scarcely an hour gone by, and the softly-falling soot…

— Nick Bostrom

“There are moments in life when you know, irrevocably, that you’ve given in, come undone. That you’ve slipped, lost your balance, and fallen over…

— Jasinda Wilder

“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes…

— Sabaa Tahir

“Night, the time I can stop worrying about my life and drift off into the abyss, free from conscious thought. It is my only…

— Jaime Guerard

“You get into a habit of low expectations, which gives you a sort of contentment. You go through life as if through a mist,…

— William Lashner

“Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky