LIFE QUOTES XXXII

quotations about life

Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die,
Like spring flowers.
Our vaunted life is one long funeral.
Men dig graves, with bitter tears,
For their dead hopes; and all,
Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears,
Count the hours.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

"A Question: To Fausta"

Tags: Matthew Arnold


Life is a marathon. It takes time, patience and commitment to creating a comeback.

GREG M. DAVIS

"Donald Trump Does Not Know the Struggle of African Americans", Time, September 1, 2016


Is all our Life, then but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

LEWIS CARROLL

Sylvie and Bruno

Tags: Lewis Carroll


How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

DANIEL DEFOE

Robinson Crusoe

Tags: Daniel Defoe


Life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.

DAVID BALDACCI

One Summer

Tags: David Baldacci


What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?

WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Leisure

Tags: William Henry Davies


You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

SAUL BELLOW

Herzog

Tags: Saul Bellow


Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

ERIC BERNE

Games People Play

Tags: Eric Berne


Life and death have been lacking in my life.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

prologue, Discussion

Tags: Jorge Luis Borges


Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune


Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

ROBERT FULGHUM

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten


And if sometimes, commingled with life's wine,
We find the wormwood, and rebel and shrink,
Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine
Pours out this potion for our lips to drink.

MAY RILEY SMITH

"Sometime"


Every day is the same thing out the door
Feel further away then ever before
Some things in life, it gets too late to learn
Well, I'm lost somewhere
I must have made a few bad turns

BOB DYLAN

"Highlands"


One must live as he can.

MAXWELL ANDERSON

Winterset

Tags: Maxwell Anderson


My definition of life is a series of experiences, and the more you have the better off you are.

EMILY FEISTRITZER

"Former nun sees life as a series of experiences, including lucrative ones", Washington Post, August 21, 2016


There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

Tags: Madame Swetchine


If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Suttree

Tags: Cormac McCarthy


Life is like patchwork: every day there is a fresh bit to be put on. We must understand more correctly how to fit in better the bits needed day by day in repairing this patchwork life of ours. As it is, the three-cornered bits too often get put into the square places; but it is essential for man's happiness that he comprehends and unhesitatingly accepts as a truism that it rests with us to make this patchwork to our own liking; that we have the power to shape this life of ours more regularly, harmoniously, and blend it more perfectly; and that our life as it is, or as it might be, depends upon whether this be done in the right spirit.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays


Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

ANAIS NIN

On Writing

Tags: Anais Nin


Any state of life contents if we know no other.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims