LIFE QUOTES XV

quotations about life

Life is being, not having.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Life is wasted on the living.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis

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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.

LOUISE ERDRICH

Love Medicine


Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Life Is Too Short"


Life is too short to blend in.

PARIS HILTON

Confessions of an Heiress

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Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

STEPHEN KING

Joyland

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One Moment in Annihilation's Waste,
One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste--
The Stars are Setting and the Caravan
Starts for the Dawn of Nothing -- Oh, make haste!

EDWARD FITZGERALD

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. you fight. you cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.

MARILYN MONROE

My Story

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I warmed both hands before the fire of Life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

I Strove with None, for None was Worth My Strife

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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

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

MARY OLIVER

"Sometimes", Red Bird


Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books -- but it is terrible when one has to live it. It is almost impossible to sleep for more than twelve hours a day, and the remaining twelve hours have to be filled in somehow.

JEAN ANOUILH

The Collected Plays

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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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

JOHN BANVILLE

The Sea

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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Mrs. Cosway, Oct. 12, 1786

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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

"Parliament of Fowls"

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The trouble with life ... is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it's always the same beginning; and the same ending.

MARTIN AMIS

introduction, Experience

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You have not lost all when you have life.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims