quotations about life
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.
ROBERT BROWNING
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In a Balcony
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I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me -- and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
introduction, Journal Intime
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You sit
Like a rain puddle in hell
Knitting the socks
Of your life.
CHARLES SIMIC
My Noiseless Entourage
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Life consists of nothing but exceptions.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
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Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it be in hazard by the law, what running, riding, posting, suing, bribing, and if all will not serve, what breaking prison is there for it!
LANCELOT ANDREWES
Ninety-six Sermons
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
BERTOLT BRECHT
On Politics and Society
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God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
Reader's Digest, July 1972
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Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
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Life is a warfare against the malice of others.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The Coming of Age
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What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.
DORIS LESSING
The Golden Notebook
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Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.
JOHN BARTH
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
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Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.
GLEN DUNCAN
The Last Werewolf
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We cross the stream of life at different places. Some wade through the shallows in a drought, others have to swim across deep waters in a storm.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
MARK TWAIN
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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There is no normal life. There is only life.
ANNE RICE
The Wolves of Midwinter
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That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
"Shaw Memorial Ode"
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Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
"Nephelidia"
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
FRANCIS BACON
Advancement of Learning
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