quotations about life
So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
"Broken Music"
Life
You have been good to me....
You have not made yourself too dear
to juggle with.
LOLA RIDGE
"Comrades"
A life knows few revelations; these must be followed when they come.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit at Rest
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
UMBERTO ECO
Baudolino
Life like a shroud on men and women lies.
MAURICE BROWNE
"At Dusk"
Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.
TIMOTHY LEARY
Your Brain Is God
Activity does not necessarily mean life.
PHILIP K. DICK
A Scanner Darkly
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
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