LIFE QUOTES XV

quotations about life

I warmed both hands before the fire of Life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

I Strove with None, for None was Worth My Strife

Tags: Walter Savage Landor


In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Studies in Animal Life

Tags: George Henry Lewes


Life is being, not having.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Life Is Too Short"


Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

STEPHEN KING

Joyland

Tags: Stephen King


Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

MARY OLIVER

"Sometimes", Red Bird


Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

JULIAN BARNES

Talking It Over

Tags: Julian Barnes


Life is wasted on the living.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Tags: Douglas Adams


Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky

Tags: Kirby Larson


Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

Tags: James Baldwin


That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet

EMILY DICKINSON

"That it will never come again"


All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

SRI AUROBINDO

Gems from Sri Aurobindo


It's your life -- but only if you make it so.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You Learn by Living

Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt


Life calls the tune, we dance.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Five Tales

Tags: John Galsworthy


Life does turn on so many queer things ... ball bearings and banana skins.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Paris Review, fall 2000


Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis

Tags: Robert E. Howard


Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"A Woman's Apology"

Tags: Alfred Austin


Life should be touched, not strangled.

RAY BRADBURY

Farewell Summer

Tags: Ray Bradbury


Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

Tags: Carlos Ruiz Zafon