LIFE QUOTES XXXVI

quotations about life

There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.

DANIEL HANDLER

(as Lemony Snicket), Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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When life looks like it's falling apart, it may just be falling in place.

BEVERLY SOLOMON

Good Housekeeping, Aug. 2009

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Who fears death does not enjoy life.

SPANISH PROVERB


In a life without obstacles he would doubtless have abandoned himself to chance and to the voluptuous sauntering of adolescence. As he could be free only for an hour or two a day, his strength flowed into that space of time like a river between walls of rock. It is a good discipline for art for a man to confine his efforts between unshakable bounds. In that sense it may be said that misery is a master, not only of thought, but of style; it teaches sobriety to the mind as to the body. When time is doled out and thoughts measured, a man says no word too much, and grows accustomed to thinking only what is essential; so he lives at double pressure, having less time for living.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

Jean-Christophe

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Life has possibilities; death has none.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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Life is a parade of metamorphoses.

KATIE LESLIE

"How Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson's rough start in North Texas prepared her for tough job", Dallas Morning News, September 1, 2016


Life is a horizontal fall.

JEAN COCTEAU

Opium

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The world is a grindstone and life is your nose.

FRED ALLEN

attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes

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The greatest philosophy of life should be to live for the benefit of others as much as one lives for the benefit of self. And that is what philosophers call a footprint on the sands of time.

FEMI ABBAS

"A decade of royalty and faith", The Nation, September 2, 2016


Short is life, but endless is the theme.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living


Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments.

ANAIS NIN

diary, winter, 1931-32


And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original procreation of matter only a disease, a growth produced by morbid stimulation of the immaterial? The first step toward evil, toward desire and death, was taken precisely then, when there took place that first increase in the density of the spiritual, that pathologically luxuriant morbid growth, produced by the irritant of some unknown infiltration; this, in part pleasurable, in part a motion of self-defense, was the primeval stage of matter, the transition from the insubstantial to the substance. This was the Fall.

THOMAS MANN

The Magic Mountain

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Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

JOHN DOS PASSOS

Three Soldiers

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Your life is like a little flute complaining
A long way off, beyond the willow trees:
A long way off, and nothing left remaining
But memory of a music on the breeze.

HILAIRE BELLOC

Sonnets

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Tell someone you love them because life is short, but shout it in Klingon because life is also terrifying and confusing.

ANONYMOUS


Whatever you live is Life.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

All the King's Men


Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

JACK LONDON

The Sea-Wolf


A life is a life. The unbearable pain of losing someone you love is identical no matter how differently it is expressed. And yet the varying shades of the global reaction to tragedy based on location, nationality, ethnicity, culture and religion belie our humanity, a harsh reminder that our "global community" is an illusion, despite our seemingly desperate desire to cling to that notion.

ARWA DAMON

"A life is a life, wherever you are", CNN, March 29, 2016


Remember that life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.

SUSAN ROSE BLAUNER

How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me