LIFE QUOTES XXVII

quotations about life

The bright side of life's unpredictability is that it's not over until it's over. As dark as the passages and confusing as the cul-de-sacs that you find yourself in are, progress is nevertheless being made. Something is unfolding. You are becoming.

MARION WINIK

Ladies Home Journal, Dec. 2008


Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

STEFAN ZWEIG

The World of Yesterday


Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.

DONALD TRUMP

interview, Playboy, Mar. 1990

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Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères


Life is one long struggle in the dark.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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Life is not a bed of roses.

ENGLISH PROVERB


Life is an incurable disease.

ABRAHAM COWLEY

To Dr. Scarborough

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Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

The Power of Thinking Big

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Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.

PHILIP K. DICK

A Scanner Darkly

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Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf

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Is there another life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

JOHN KEATS

letter to Charles Brown, Sep. 30, 1820


In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Fantastic Voyage II

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If we could live for a million years, then maybe it would be worthwhile to create some problems. But our life is short. Now you see, we are guests here on this planet, visitors who have come for a short time, so we need to use our days wisely, to make our world a little better for everyone.

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Book of Joy

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I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.

TIM ALLEN

Reader's Digest, Oct. 2001


I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed. And then? I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed. And what next? I get laid, I take a short holiday, but very soon after I fall upon those same thorns with gratification in pain, or suffering in joy -- who knows what the mixture is! What good, what lasting good is there in me? Is there nothing else between birth and death but what I can get out of this perversity -- only a favorable balance of disorderly emotions? No freedom? Only impulses? And what about all the good I have in my heart -- does it mean anything? Is it simply a joke? A false hope that makes a man feel the illusion of worth? And so he goes on with his struggles. But this good is no phony. I know it isn't. I swear it.

SAUL BELLOW

Herzog


I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.

ROBERT BROWNING

In a Balcony

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Flirting with death is the spice of life.

MARGARET LOCK

Twice Dead

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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk


As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

SENECA

Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales

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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover