LIFE QUOTES XL

quotations about life

You sit
Like a rain puddle in hell
Knitting the socks
Of your life.

CHARLES SIMIC

My Noiseless Entourage

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A life knows few revelations; these must be followed when they come.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit at Rest


Activity does not necessarily mean life.

PHILIP K. DICK

A Scanner Darkly


Life like a shroud on men and women lies.

MAURICE BROWNE

"At Dusk"


So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

"Broken Music"


To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

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What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

UMBERTO ECO

Baudolino

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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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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