LIFE QUOTES XXIII

quotations about life

Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

"Ashes of Life"

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

STELLA BENSON

This Is the End

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Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.

ANITA BROOKNER

The Paris Review, fall 1987

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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"

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

attributed, The Waking Dream

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The rich pearl of life,
Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

ISAAC MCLELLAN

"Musings"

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

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The Joyful Wisdom

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He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach -- that it makes no sense.

PHILIP ROTH

American Pastoral


He who loveth, knoweth the inner sun; he see'th Life's blaze.

ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT

"Arizona"


I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

"Miss Harriet"

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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

ANNE LAMOTT

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith


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

JACK LONDON

White Fang


Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

"The Procession of Life"

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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

DAVID GERROLD

Alternate Gerrolds

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Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

NORA ROBERTS

From the Heart

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Life is the thing--the song of life--
The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth Imperturbable"

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Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

MICHAEL J. FOX

Good Housekeeping, June 2011

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Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


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

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Madness & Civilization

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Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

BENTLEY LITTLE

The Policy

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