LIFE QUOTES XL

quotations about life

We had crossed from death into what certainly sounded like life. And not only did it sound like life, it looked like life; and not only did it look like life, it looked like a particular life, a life which was a particular reproach to me.

JAMES BALDWIN

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks...

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Rum Diary

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A bubble of air in the blood, a drop of water in the brain, and a man is out of gear, his machine falls to pieces, his thought vanishes, the world disappears from him like a dream at morning. On what a spider thread is hung our individual existence!

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime


Life is the flash in black heavens.

HENRI CAZALIS

"Always"

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Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

TIMOTHY LEARY

Your Brain Is God

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Life is distressing insomuch as we give exaggerated importance to altogether unimportant matters. Drifting along, I have observed that we men and women disturb ourselves about trifles, overlooking in the needless excitement the innumerable beauties which wait upon the way. Every ripple is not a wave, every wind is not a hurricane. Why worry whilst we are still upon the stream? It will be time enough to trouble when we meet the sea.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters


Life is a garden forever in flower.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Entre-Acte Reveries"

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But life is not the wax or wick of the candle, it is the burning. It is not the complex nitrates and the carbon compounds in which it sits but their combustion.

BAKER BROWNELL

The New Universe