LIFE QUOTES XV

quotations about life

For drinking Life there are two cups:
The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy --
Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood

Tags: Margaret Atwood


Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky

Tags: Kirby Larson


In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Studies in Animal Life

Tags: George Henry Lewes


Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Life Is Too Short"


Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

Tags: Benjamin Franklin


Life is being, not having.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

MARY OLIVER

"Sometimes", Red Bird


Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

JULIAN BARNES

Talking It Over

Tags: Julian Barnes


Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

Tags: James Baldwin


That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet

EMILY DICKINSON

"That it will never come again"


Life is wasted on the living.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Tags: Douglas Adams


Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"A Woman's Apology"

Tags: Alfred Austin


All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

SRI AUROBINDO

Gems from Sri Aurobindo


Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis

Tags: Robert E. Howard


Life should be touched, not strangled.

RAY BRADBURY

Farewell Summer

Tags: Ray Bradbury


Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?

MARY OLIVER

"Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?", West Wind

Tags: Mary Oliver


Life calls the tune, we dance.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Five Tales

Tags: John Galsworthy


Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Sea

Tags: John Banville


Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

Tags: Ivan Panin


Life does turn on so many queer things ... ball bearings and banana skins.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Paris Review, fall 2000