LIFE QUOTES XXXII

quotations about life

Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

ROBERT FULGHUM

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten


Life is a marathon. It takes time, patience and commitment to creating a comeback.

GREG M. DAVIS

"Donald Trump Does Not Know the Struggle of African Americans", Time, September 1, 2016


Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune


Life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.

DAVID BALDACCI

One Summer

Tags: David Baldacci


Life and death have been lacking in my life.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

prologue, Discussion

Tags: Jorge Luis Borges


Is all our Life, then but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

LEWIS CARROLL

Sylvie and Bruno

Tags: Lewis Carroll


How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.

STEPHEN LEACOCK

Feast of Stephen


How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

DANIEL DEFOE

Robinson Crusoe

Tags: Daniel Defoe


Every day is the same thing out the door
Feel further away then ever before
Some things in life, it gets too late to learn
Well, I'm lost somewhere
I must have made a few bad turns

BOB DYLAN

"Highlands"


Each life creates endless ripples.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune


And if sometimes, commingled with life's wine,
We find the wormwood, and rebel and shrink,
Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine
Pours out this potion for our lips to drink.

MAY RILEY SMITH

"Sometime"


There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

Tags: Madame Swetchine


The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

Arrowsmith


One must live as he can.

MAXWELL ANDERSON

Winterset

Tags: Maxwell Anderson


My definition of life is a series of experiences, and the more you have the better off you are.

EMILY FEISTRITZER

"Former nun sees life as a series of experiences, including lucrative ones", Washington Post, August 21, 2016


Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

ANAIS NIN

On Writing

Tags: Anais Nin


Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

"The Dark Brotherhood"


Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

AMY LOWELL

"Petals", A Dome of Many-coloured Glass

Tags: Amy Lowell


If life gives you rotten eggs, make a crepe.

ALI MARGO

"Princess: Life is a bowl of cherries -- so throw that into your crepe", Aspen Times, May 19, 2016


If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Suttree

Tags: Cormac McCarthy