Real Life Endings Quotes

“Life is a dream. We wake up when we die”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“What is life but an ongoing war?”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Then nothing became something, and I was born, and I wrought great havoc in the world in the time allotted to me, and I returned to nothingness”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“The hardest thing in life is a man to be honest with himself”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That's life”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“We're not going to make it," I said.
The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Leslie had said to me when we were discussing Shannon's and Antoinetta's disappearance? 'You're beginning to sound like one of the characters in your books, Adam.' She'd been right. If this were a novel my heroes would have arrived just in the nick of time and saved the day. But real life didn't work like that. Real life had no happy endings. Despite our best efforts, despite my love for Tara [his wife] and my determination to protect her, and after everything we'd been through at the LeHorn house, fate conspired against us. We were still nine or ten miles from home, and night was almost upon us. By the time we got there it would already be too late. I fought back tears. I had the urge just to lie down in the middle of the road and let the next car run over me.”
― Brian Keene, Dark Hollow

“Life is a stampede to get to the top”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Life becomes unbearable when, instead of living it, you stop to think about it.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Family is the only why of life”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Some people start to live when they die”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“If you still have fear, you love life”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our minds, the true nature of humans would be laid bare”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Life is so sweet. A man will even kiss the a** of his enemy to have his head spared”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Life is existence with meaning”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Sometimes the rope seems the only option when at the bottom of the pit. Climb it to safety.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Life is just a dream, to some it's a sweet dream, to others, a nightmare. But whatever it is, it's always short and dissipates quickly.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“When you finally understand the meaning of life, you come to the conclusion it has none after all”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“I liked the ending of The Sopranos. The screen suddenly went black. In the middle of a scene. Without any of the plotlines being resolved. That's what real life is like. Everything keeps going, until someone turns off the lights and you're dead. And even then the story continues, without you. There is no such thing as a happy ending.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles

“Do you know why we show respect to life when it shows none to us? Family is the answer”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity