LIFE QUOTES X

quotations about life


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Life is a muddle. It seems a brilliant muddle, if you are an optimist; a dull one, if you aren't; but in neither case can you deny that it is the muddlers who keep it going.

MAX BEERBOHM
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The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm


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Tags: Max Beerbohm


I shall not say, our life is all in vain,
For peace may cheer the desolated hearth;
But well I know that, on this weary earth,
Round each joy-island is a sea of pain.

HENRY ABBEY

"While the Days Go By"


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Tags: Henry Abbey


Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

DEAN KOONTZ

Velocity


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Tags: Dean Koontz


A good life keeps off wrinkles.

SPANISH PROVERB


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All research suggests that life on this Earth is an accident, that if you take a kettle of primordial soup and shake it enough, shock it enough, even freeze it enough, you get organic compounds. Allow these compounds to suffer random accidents long enough and you get life. That's life with a capital L. The fundamentalists are outraged that something as sacred and important as Life could be an accident. They want it to be a result of a command, a plan, a blueprint, a simple, orderly, well-engineered, easily understood project designed by a deity who ... would figure all tolerances and fudge them by a safety factor of five or ten. Well, fuck them. Accidents happen. We're one of them.

DAN SIMMONS

Lovedeath


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Tags: Dan Simmons


Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

GLEN DUNCAN

Talulla Rising


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Life thunders on.

LOLA RIDGE

"Frank Little at Calvary"


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Tags: Lola Ridge


The real thing, this! and all these endless days, these days of senseless drudgery, it was this that set his soul in fever -- in a craze -- to break away, to feel the crushing bliss of life that wars with life -- the seethe and hiss.

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"


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Tags: Conrad Aiken


One brief journey betwixt heaven and earth,
Then, alas! we are the same old dust of ten thousand ages.

LI BAI

"The Old Dust"


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Tags: Li Bai


I have ever had the conviction, resistant to all rational considerations, that at some unspecified future moment the continuous rehearsal which is my life, with its so many misreadings, is slips and fluffs, will be done with and that the real drama for which I have ever and with earnestness been preparing will at last begin. It is a common delusion.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Sea


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Tags: John Banville


Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Thunder on the Left


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I just can't get used to life.

EUGENE IONESCO

Rhinoceros


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Tags: Eugene Ionesco


Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

"Modern Fiction", The Common Reader


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Tags: Virginia Woolf


Each person's life is a continuum of unique experiences.

MITCH ANTHONY

Your Clients for Life


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Tags: Mitch Anthony


The life you think you should want ... is always the life that looks safest.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country


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Tags: James Baldwin


As a well spent day affords happy sleep, so does a life profitably employed afford a happy death.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life


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A long life is a life well spent.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life


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How deceptively light they are, the truly decisive steps we take in life.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Untouchable


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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams


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When life is lived as a living-and-dying in the primordial, nonsubstantial nothingness, one realizes that life is bottomlessly life and death is bottomlessly death. Life does not change into death, and death does not take away life.

MASAO ABE

Zen and the Modern World


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Tags: Masao Abe