Marianne Wiggins Quotes

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

I'd hope that the story A Dog's Purpose helps everyone reflect on how many different "lives" we all live - from children to teenager to adults to seniors - and how each phase of life presents new situations along the way to discovering our ultimate purpose.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Do Not Waste Your Life Lightly

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial.

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here - then somewhere in their 20s, they seem to say, 'I'll just get married. I'll just have kids. I'll get back to that later.' But they never do. For me, it kept boiling.

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?