Life Limitations Quotes

Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.

There's certain countries that you can't get in if you've got a criminal background record. There's certain jobs in the States that you can't get because you've got a criminal background record. That follows you the rest of your life... and that's something you have to deal with the rest of your life.

If the study of history teaches anything, it teaches us the limitations of life.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.

As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

If your thinking is limited, your life will be limited.

I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over.

'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia’s the sane realisation you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.

There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.

My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.