LIFE QUOTES XV

quotations about life

It is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

CHARLES DICKENS

Great Expectations


All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

SRI AUROBINDO

Gems from Sri Aurobindo


Life should be touched, not strangled.

RAY BRADBURY

Farewell Summer

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Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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

PHILIP ROTH

American Pastoral


I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

CHARLES DICKENS

A Christmas Carol

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Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"A Woman's Apology"

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Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

JENNETTE LEE

The Ibsen Secret

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A nation of unimpressible philosophers would not care at all how the externals of life were managed. Who is the showman is not material unless you care about the show.

WALTER BAGEHOT

The English Constitution

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

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Life is a continual march towards the grave.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

EMILE ZOLA

Le Docteur Pascal

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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


For drinking Life there are two cups:
The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy --
Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood

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Life is an uncertain flower--oft by the tempest o'erthrown.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis

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Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

WOODY ALLEN

Husbands and Wives

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Life is too short to blend in.

PARIS HILTON

Confessions of an Heiress

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You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way like five or six people all trying to make a rug on the same loom only each one wants to weave his own pattern into the rug; and it can't matter, you know that, or the Ones that set up the loom would have arranged things a little better, and yet it must matter because you keep on trying or having to keep on trying and then all of a sudden it's all over and all you have left is a block of stone with scratches on it provided there was someone to remember to have the marble scratched and set up or had time to, and it rains on it and the sun shines on it and after a while they don't even remember the name and what the scratchers were trying to tell, and it doesn't matter.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Mrs. Bingham, Feb. 7, 1787

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