Bernard Malamud Quotes

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Because she was seventeen, and still alive, against thousands of years' worth of odds.Because she knew enough to fear what the future would bring.

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

You never know what your opportunities are going to be.

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

To be alive at all involves some risk.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

You never know what the future brings.

Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Miracles occur, or people die the next day.

You never know what the future might hold.

You never know what's around the corner.

You never know what next week brings.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

Even in the worst time of life, if you are still breathing, that means you are still alive. If you are still here, you haven't accomplished what is still to be accomplished. The most important part of your life is still ahead of you.

Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

There still might be a place for us somewhere.

I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still die after that - it won't be too late. Probably.

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.