Life Events Quotes

“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“On the outside she looked like a sexy young woman, on the inside he was a destroyed young man”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“Peter the pedo killer and I spent a couple of days touring pharmacies”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“After a great blow, or crisis, after the first shock and then after the nerves have stopped screaming and twitching, you settle down to the new condition of things and feel that all possibility of change has been used up. You adjust yourself, and are sure that the new equilibrium is for eternity. . . But if anything is certain it is that no story is ever over, for the story which we think is over is only a chapter in a story which will not be over, and it isn't the game that is over, it is just an inning, and that game has a lot more than nine innings. When the game stops it will be called on account of darkness. But it is a long day.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.”
― Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies

“Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“The people who are with us by either happenstance or design during life-altering events become woven into the fabric of those events.”
― Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

“It is the little things one bungles at. The big, real ones are nothing when they come.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“But as much as I tried, I couldn't forget my past. The events that had shaped me continued to weigh on my soul.”
― Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

“The Fourth was perfect. She'd make a ceremony, an event, of this. She had a bad habit of never giving ceremony its due. But sometimes life demanded ceremony. Sometimes you owed that to yourself.”
― Ellen Airgood

“The universe doesn't waste anything. Sometimes, we just don't have standing to see how events or experiences are important.”
― Adrián Lamo

“Whenceforth, nothing inccurs suddenly or transpires just out of the blue. There is a process in everything that happens in this world and beyond. Subsequently everything happens specifically for its known or unknown reasons”
― Legendary Tony Kay

“Events in our lives are merely lessons we must face along the way. Lessons that make us stronger. Lessons that make us the unstoppable forces we were always meant to become.”
― Kale Lawrence, The Magi Menagerie