LIFE QUOTES XL

quotations about life

Human life when rightly lived is simple ... but it is not rightly lived while it is bound to a complexity of lusts, desires, and wants -- these are not the real life but the burning fever and painful disease which originate in an unenlightened condition of mind.

JAMES ALLEN

Byways of Blessedness

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This is the strange contract between life and language: language keeps naming and life, like a woman seductively escaping her seducer's caress, keeps just a little beyond its names.

GLEN DUNCAN

By Blood We Live

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Life is a garden forever in flower.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Entre-Acte Reveries"

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So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

"Broken Music"


Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

IRVIN D. YALOM

The Schopenhauer Cure

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Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

TIMOTHY LEARY

Your Brain Is God

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But life is not the wax or wick of the candle, it is the burning. It is not the complex nitrates and the carbon compounds in which it sits but their combustion.

BAKER BROWNELL

The New Universe


Life is a cycle of both suffering and pleasure. One doesn't exist without the other.

VENERABLE POMNYUN

"How Can We Create A Happy Life For Ourselves And A More Just Society?", Huffington Post, August 15, 2016


Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park

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