LIFE QUOTES V
quotations about life
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored
But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous rebus.
JAMES JOYCE
Finnegan's Wake
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth, we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SOPHOCLES
Philoctetes
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
attributed, Woman's Day Magazine, Jun. 1, 2007
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
JOANNE HARRIS
Chocolat
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER
"The Summer Day", New and Selected Poems
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
IRVIN D. YALOM
When Nietzsche Wept
Life is a riddle we die in guessing.
CLARA MARCELLE FARRAR GREENE
"Before the Wedding"
Most people can't imagine a life that is any different from the one they are actually living. They can dream about it, they can even go into the streets and demonstrate for it, but they still can't imagine what it would be like.
IVAN KLIMA
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light
Life is but a prelude.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
Come on, Marge, I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls. I'm sick of eating hoagies. I want a grinder, a sub, a foot-long hero. I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live? Won't you, please?!
HOMER SIMPSON
"Fear of Flying", The Simpsons
The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
Yerma
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
"War Shrines", Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence -- or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
The Lost Worlds of 2001
We have come to the wrong star ... That is what makes life at once so splendid and so strange. The true happiness is that we don't fit. We come from somewhere else. We have lost our way.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Orthodoxy
Still all the day the iron wheels go onward,
Grinding life down from its mark.
GERALD MASSEY
"The Cry of the Children"