LIFE QUOTES XXI

quotations about life

Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.

TIM LEBBON

Face

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There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

SAUL BELLOW

AGNI interview, 1997


The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

attributed, The Waking Dream

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To realize life as absolute is to be existentially emancipated from life itself in that very realization, which understands that life is not life. The same applies to death.

MASAO ABE

Zen and the Modern World

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Lean forward into your life ... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

MARY ANNE RADMACHER

Lean Forward Into Your Life

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In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning:
Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


The best life is that which makes the best of life.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

"Beyond the Wall of Sleep"


If you always do the easy and comfortable thing, life ends up being difficult and uncomfortable. If you do the difficult and uncomfortable thing, however, life ends up being easy and comfortable.

ERNIE J. ZELINSKI

Look Ma, Life's Easy

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Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

"Ashes of Life"

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What mean the discipline and trial of life? What mean the dark shocks of disappointment, the breaking of hopes, the sundering of human ties, the terrible baptism of suffering and of fire, if there is not something beyond? If in every bath of sweat and tears, every drop of sorrow, every falling wave, there is something by which I am led more near to God, by which my soul is made stronger and purified, then I can understand life. But if I am hurled in the chaos of life--battered by sorrow today, and kicked by misfortune tomorrow--stricken by my fondest hopes, deluded and deceived, and all is to end in nothingness, I must confess that you present a problem I cannot solve.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

"Anywhere Out of the World", Le Spleen de Paris

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A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

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So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Mr G: A Novel About the Creation

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Life is a luxury, isn't it? there's no use in it--but how delightful!

STELLA BENSON

This Is the End

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Life is, alas, one eternal combat.

SARAH BERNHARDT

The Idol of Paris

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If you are good life is good.

ROALD DAHL

Matilda

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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl

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Life can be cruel and uncomfortable at times. That doesn't define you. It's how we survive and create a colorful life with our experiences. Good and bad.

PAMELA ANDERSON

interview, Parade Magazine, January 23, 2015

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If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death
Perhaps the world can teach us
as when everything seems dead
but later proves to be alive.

PABLO NERUDA

Extravagaria

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