LIFE QUOTES XXX

quotations about life

Our daily lives have a kaleidoscopic quality, a feeling of walking down a breakfast buffet and spooning out things onto your plate. And there's a lot to eat at this brunch of experience. Too many pineapple rings, too many sausages, too much syrup.

NICHOLSON BAKER

interview, Interview Magazine, September 16, 2013

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Anything in life is possible if you make it happen.

JACK LALANNE

Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness

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Life is the tamer of the wild beast of humanity.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Childhood", A Soliloquy of Life

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Life is not a bed of roses.

ENGLISH PROVERB


A life ill spent makes a sad old age.

SPANISH PROVERB


If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

ROBERT FULGHUM

Uh-Oh

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Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish,
Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire,
Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

SRI AUROBINDO

Gems from Sri Aurobindo

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Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

NORA ROBERTS

Vision in White

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Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

JULIAN BARNES

The Sense of an Ending

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I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me -- and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

introduction, Journal Intime

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Man reaches each stage in his life as a novice.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


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

DONALD TRUMP

interview, Playboy, Mar. 1990

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Life is no way to treat an animal.

KURT VONNEGUT

A Man Without a Country

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Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts -- these three modes of activity exhaust his powers.

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

The Doctrine of Life

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Life is sad
Life is a bust
All ya can do is do what you must

BOB DYLAN

"Buckets of Rain"

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The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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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


We cross the stream of life at different places. Some wade through the shallows in a drought, others have to swim across deep waters in a storm.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke


Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

RITA MAE BROWN

Hounded to Death

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Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

JOSEPH HELLER

Catch-22

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