V. S. Naipaul Quotes

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us.

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

We all have our ups and our downs, and it's consistent throughout all of our lives. It's not a movie: you don't get to a point where, suddenly, you're free forever - it's life.

Time moves on for everyone.

You live you die and death not ends it.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

They lived and laughed and loved and left.

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

Life - life - let there be life!

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.