LIFE QUOTES XXII

quotations about life

If you are good life is good.

ROALD DAHL

Matilda

Tags: Roald Dahl


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

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl

Tags: Paolo Bacigalupi


When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

My Day

Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt


Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

JEAN ANOUILH

Antigone

Tags: Jean Anouilh


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

Tags: Pablo Neruda


Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The rich pearl of life,
Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

ISAAC MCLELLAN

"Musings"

Tags: Isaac McLellan


So life discloses--
Howe'er the pathway curve or turn--
New hopes that rise, new stars that burn
In changing splendor night or day;
New joys that drive old griefs away.

ANDREW DOWNING

"Among the Roses"

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Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

BENTLEY LITTLE

The Policy

Tags: Bentley Little


Life at the greatest is but a froward child, that must be humor'd and coax'd a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Good-Natured Man

Tags: Oliver Goldsmith


Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf


Why, what in the world should we care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time?

MARCEL PROUST

Swann's Way

Tags: Marcel Proust


Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Madness & Civilization

Tags: Michel Foucault


The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The Joyful Wisdom

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

GASTON BACHELARD

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire

Tags: Gaston Bachelard


Life is a process of modification and descent, rather than genesis. There was never a moment when an egg hatched a brand new thing called a chicken, or when a chicken produced, unexpectedly, something bizarre called an egg.

JOEL ACHENBACH

"The 4 biggest milestones in the history of life on Earth", Albuquerque Journal, September 1, 2016


There are sad times, of course, but then life is a mixture and an authentic life story is the good, the bad, and everything in between.

NIK FARAH

"Recording a life is so precious", The Star, August 12, 2016


Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

SENECA

Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales


Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Mankind", Les Caractères


Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus

Tags: Publilius Syrus