LIFE QUOTES XXII

quotations about life

Why, what in the world should we care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time?

MARCEL PROUST

Swann's Way

Tags: Marcel Proust


Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Madness & Civilization

Tags: Michel Foucault


Life at the greatest is but a froward child, that must be humor'd and coax'd a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Good-Natured Man

Tags: Oliver Goldsmith


If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death
Perhaps the world can teach us
as when everything seems dead
but later proves to be alive.

PABLO NERUDA

Extravagaria

Tags: Pablo Neruda


Life can be cruel and uncomfortable at times. That doesn't define you. It's how we survive and create a colorful life with our experiences. Good and bad.

PAMELA ANDERSON

interview, Parade Magazine, January 23, 2015

Tags: Pamela Anderson


Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl

Tags: Paolo Bacigalupi


If you are good life is good.

ROALD DAHL

Matilda

Tags: Roald Dahl


Life is, alas, one eternal combat.

SARAH BERNHARDT

The Idol of Paris

Tags: Sarah Bernhardt


Life is a luxury, isn't it? there's no use in it--but how delightful!

STELLA BENSON

This Is the End

Tags: Stella Benson


So life discloses--
Howe'er the pathway curve or turn--
New hopes that rise, new stars that burn
In changing splendor night or day;
New joys that drive old griefs away.

ANDREW DOWNING

"Among the Roses"

Tags: Andrew Downing


What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

ARISTOPHANES

Lysistrata

Tags: Aristophanes


Life is an illusion to be tailored to our needs.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen


It's only life. We all get through it.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Hours

Tags: Dean Koontz


The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

FRANK HERBERT

Dune Messiah

Tags: Frank Herbert


The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The Joyful Wisdom

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

GASTON BACHELARD

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire

Tags: Gaston Bachelard


The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

GEORGE ELIOT

Janet's Repentance

Tags: George Eliot


Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

JACK LONDON

White Fang


The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.

JACK LONDON

The Sea-Wolf