LIFE QUOTES XVII

quotations about life

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune


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

EMILY DICKINSON

"That it will never come again"


Ah, what is life!
'T is but a passing touch upon the world;
A print upon the beaches of the earth
Next flowing wave will wash away.

ANNA KATHERINE GREEN

"Life"

Tags: Anna Katherine Green


Rest not! Life is sweeping by;
Go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time!

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

"Haste Not--Rest Not"


Weeks passed, a whirl of lights and sound and laughter, a fever dream, vertiginous, roaring, mad, he quit his job, not caring what came after, and struck out blindly; money enough he had, and life, by Christ, would go now as he bade; he got it by the throat, he was its master; sing! went his whip, and life danced on the faster.

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"


Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
2 get through this thing called life.

PRINCE

"Let's Go Crazy"

Tags: Prince


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

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You Learn by Living

Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt


The difficulties of life are intended to make us better--not bitter.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

The Power of Thinking Big


One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Coming of Age

Tags: Simone de Beauvoir


To have found meaning in life is thus the only certain antidote to the deliberate seeking of death. But at the same time, in a strange dialectical way, it is death that endows life with its deepest, most unique meaning.

BRUNO BETTELHEIM

Surviving the Holocaust

Tags: Bruno Bettelheim


Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

SAUL ALINSKY

Rules for Radicals

Tags: Saul Alinsky


Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Obsidian Butterfly

Tags: Laurell K. Hamilton


I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Mosquitoes

Tags: William Faulkner


Life is an uncertain flower--oft by the tempest o'erthrown.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Life calls the tune, we dance.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Five Tales

Tags: John Galsworthy


Life is getting what you want, and I'm better at life than you are.

JEFF ABBOTT

Adrenaline

Tags: Jeff Abbott


Life is a series of obstacles. It's not supposed to be easy. It is how you deal with these obstacles that define you as a person.

RAUL CARRANZA

"UC San Diego grad with muscular dystrophy shows incredible strength to achieve his dreams", University of California, June 16, 2016


If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged, ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known. Nevertheless, the recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year.

ALICE MEYNELL

"The Rhythm of Life", The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays


I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

RANSOM RIGGS

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Tags: Ransom Riggs


Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Tags: Christian Nestell Bovee