LIFE QUOTES XX

quotations about life

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


Everyday life cannot be cast in heroic mould. No doubt there seems, at any rate at first sight, no room left in this scheme of life for that longing after the infinite which expands the mind and soul. But what is there to prevent me from launching on that boundless sea our familiar craft?

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Letters of Two Brides

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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment -- the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz"


Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.

MARY ANNE RADMACHER

Honey In Your Heart

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You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.

ANNE LAMOTT

"Time Lost and Found", Sunset

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This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

"Anywhere Out of the World", Le Spleen de Paris

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The best life is that which makes the best of life.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Life, with the Soul predominant,
Is a noble mosaic, a bewitching arabesque.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Song of the Soul"

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Life unshared has scarce a charm.

C. B. LANGSTON

"Solitude"


Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.

CYRIL CONNOLLY

The Unquiet Grave

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Life consists of burning up questions.

ANTONIN ARTAUD

Selected Writings

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Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life

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Lean forward into your life ... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

MARY ANNE RADMACHER

Lean Forward Into Your Life

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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Varieties of Religious Experience

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It was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

All the Pretty Horses

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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

LIN YUTANG

The Literary Digest, 1938

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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women

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How good is man's life, the mere living!
How fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses
Forever in joy!

ROBERT BROWNING

"Saul"

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As you speed along the highway of life ... you might pause and consider. When everything's coming your way, maybe you're driving in the wrong lane.

JOSEPH FINDER

Paranoia

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