LIFE QUOTES IV

quotations about life

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There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Where the Blue Begins

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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

A Visit to Funen with Hans Christian Andersen

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That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

GLEN DUNCAN

Death of an Ordinary Man

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

attributed, Woman's Day Magazine, Jun. 1, 2007

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Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

SOPHOCLES

Philoctetes

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Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

attributed, Only Mystery: Federico García Lorca's Poetry in Word and Image


Life is a moment stolen from eternity.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth, we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


How small a porton of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON

"Seeds", The Triumph of the Egg

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Every second of my regular, boring life is a beautiful gift.

MOLLY JO ROSE

"Life is fullest before the 25th hour", U.S. Catholic, September 1, 2016


For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored

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Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Q, August, 1992

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Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

MARY MCCARTHY

The Hounds of Summer and Other Stories

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Life is not meant to be hard: if it is, we make it so.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth

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But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous rebus.

JAMES JOYCE

Finnegan's Wake

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Life is very like a battle or a game of chess; and there ought to be some plan of the campaign.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays