LIFE QUOTES IV
quotations about life
Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Q, August, 1992
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
BLAISE PASCAL
Pensees
Life is the root of Eden's loftiest tree
Whose ripened fruit is immortality.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"God's Gift to Man"
Every second of my regular, boring life is a beautiful gift.
MOLLY JO ROSE
"Life is fullest before the 25th hour", U.S. Catholic, September 1, 2016
Life is very like a battle or a game of chess; and there ought to be some plan of the campaign.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth, we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.
EMMA LAZARUS
obituary, Century Magazine, 1887
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
ROBERT STONE
attributed, Writers at Work
How small a porton of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
DAN SIMMONS
Endymion
Football is a team game. So is life.
JOE NAMATH
attributed, Where Football Is King
Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
attributed, Only Mystery: Federico García Lorca's Poetry in Word and Image
This is one of those days which I am obliged to record as almost a blank in my existence.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
diary, November 23, 1837
Most people can't imagine a life that is any different from the one they are actually living. They can dream about it, they can even go into the streets and demonstrate for it, but they still can't imagine what it would be like.
IVAN KLIMA
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light
Life is a moment stolen from eternity.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Absalom, Absalom!
But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous rebus.
JAMES JOYCE
Finnegan's Wake
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
attributed, Woman's Day Magazine, Jun. 1, 2007
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Where the Blue Begins
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography