LIFE QUOTES XVII

quotations about life

Life is sweet.

ENGLISH PROVERB

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Life is not life unless we can feel it.

SAMUEL BUTLER

"How to Make the Best of Life", Essays on Life, Art and Science


What is our life? A play of passion.
Our mirth the music of division.
Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be,
Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

"On the Life of Man"

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The whole world's a bottle,
And life's but a dram,
When the bottle gets empty,
It sure ain't worth a damn.

BOB DYLAN

"Moonshiner"


As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

BRAM STOKER

"The Jewel of the Seven Stars"

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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune


Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.

DON DELILLO

Underworld

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Theologian's Tale", Tales of a Wayside Inn

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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The Ghost in My Life

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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"


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

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


Life is too short to blend in.

PARIS HILTON

Confessions of an Heiress

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Once introduced into this world, life would never leave--there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more.

GREGORY BENFORD

Against Infinity

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His dangerous, overwhelming lust for life had failed to involve him in anything deeper than perhaps half a dozen extremely casual acquaintanceships in about as many bars.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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When man would make a rose with tools, he fashions petals and leaves of wax, colors them, manufactures a stalk by the same mechanical process -- and the rose is done. When God makes a rose, he lets a bird or a puff of wind drop a seed into the ground; out of the seed there emerges a stalk; and out of the stalk, branches; and on these branches, buds; and out of these buds roses unfold; and the rose is never done, for it goes on endlessly repeating itself. This is the difference between manufacture and growth. Man's method is the method of manufacture; God's method is the method of growth. What man makes is a finished product -- death. What God makes is an always finishing and never finished product -- life.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Theology of an Evolutionist

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Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

KELLY LINK

Stranger Things Happen

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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


Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

journal, Mar. 1859

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