LIFE QUOTES XXXVII

quotations about life

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

JOHN ELDREDGE

Desire

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All of life is a foreign country.

JACK KEROUAC

letter, June 24, 1949

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The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.

DON DELILLO

Point Omega

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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing
(whatever it is) that glitters on the earth--
we call it life.

ANNE CARSON

Grief Lessons: Four Plays

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Life is reduced to a bunch of fights over territory.

KOBO ABE

The Ark Sakura

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Weakest and strongest of the things that God has made, Life is the heir of Death, and yet his conqueror--victim at once and victor. All living things succumb to Death's cradle; Life smiles at his impotence, and makes the grave her cradle.

JAMES HINTON

Life in Nature


A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

JACK LONDON

The Cruise of the Dazzler


I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.

J. M. COETZEE

In the Heart of the Country

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Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"A Psalm of Life"


Human life is a pilgrimage from the unknown to the unknown. No one knows whence he emanated or whither he is bound.

FEMI ABBAS

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


Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life


Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.

ARTHUR ADAMOV

The Confession

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Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods


Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible


The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

BONG R. OSORIO

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose", The Philippine Star, June 20, 2016


Let me leap naked through life's testing flame,
And bear to lose, and yet endure to win.

KENNETH RAND

"The World-Slave"

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

JOHN LENNON

"Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)", Double Fantasy

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The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

JEROME K. JEROME

"Reginald Blake, Financier and Cad"


Life is the flash in black heavens.

HENRI CAZALIS

"Always"

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Life ... is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Thomas