LIFE QUOTES XIV

quotations about life

Into each life some rain must fall.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Rainy Day"

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Child, child, have patience and belief, for life is many days, and each present hour will pass away.

THOMAS WOLFE

You Can't Go Home Again


To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

SRI AUROBINDO

Savitri

Tags: Sri Aurobindo


Life is a lot like math. There's always new stuff to do, always another problem to solve. Work through it one problem at a time.

STEPHANIE SANTILLO

"Sheehan valedictorian: 'Life is a lot like math'", My Record Journal, June 3, 2016


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

LOUISE ERDRICH

Love Medicine


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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The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune


Life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse


Life is wasted on the living.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Tags: Douglas Adams


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

Tags: Marilyn Monroe


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life -- It goes on.

ROBERT FROST

attributed, A New Treasury of Words to Live By

Tags: Robert Frost


Yes, life is but a waste,
A cheerless pathway, where
No healthy fruit allures the taste,
No flowerets balm the air,
If Love, the wild rose, ne'er luxuriates there.

WILLIAM B. TAPPAN

"Love"

Tags: William B. Tappan


O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

"Two Moods"


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

Tags: Jean Anouilh


Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Blue Jay's Dance

Tags: Louise Erdrich


Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Philosophical Essays

Tags: Bertrand Russell


A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


He or she who has made the best of the life after death has made the best of the life before it.

SAMUEL BUTLER

"How to Make the Best of Life", Essays on Life, Art and Science


Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

PHILIP ROTH

American Pastoral


What is the meaning of life?... A simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse

Tags: Virginia Woolf