LIFE QUOTES X

quotations about life

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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The life you think you should want ... is always the life that looks safest.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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She seemed to listen to life as though life were the most cunning and charming of confidence men: knowing perfectly well that she was being conned, she, nevertheless, again and again, gave the man the money for the Brooklyn Bridge. She never gained possession of the bridge, of course, but she certainly learned how to laugh. And the tiny lines in her face had been produced as much by laughter as by loss.

JAMES BALDWIN

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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When life is lived as a living-and-dying in the primordial, nonsubstantial nothingness, one realizes that life is bottomlessly life and death is bottomlessly death. Life does not change into death, and death does not take away life.

MASAO ABE

Zen and the Modern World

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Each person's life is a continuum of unique experiences.

MITCH ANTHONY

Your Clients for Life

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One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found -- and it is found in terrible places.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Fire Next Time

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Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.

GLEN DUNCAN

Talulla Rising


If life is a death sentence, then we all have plenty of time to kill.

GREGORY ADAMS

"Review: Life Is a Death Sentence", Exclaim, June 10, 2016


Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Pere Goriot

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A good life keeps off wrinkles.

SPANISH PROVERB


Life thunders on.

LOLA RIDGE

"Frank Little at Calvary"

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

letter to his son Eduard, Feb. 5, 1930

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The real thing, this! and all these endless days, these days of senseless drudgery, it was this that set his soul in fever -- in a craze -- to break away, to feel the crushing bliss of life that wars with life -- the seethe and hiss.

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"

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Life is a journey we are always travelling; but, unlike most others, seldom care we to reach the end.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.

FREDERIK POHL

Gateway

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I shall not say, our life is all in vain,
For peace may cheer the desolated hearth;
But well I know that, on this weary earth,
Round each joy-island is a sea of pain.

HENRY ABBEY

"While the Days Go By"

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One brief journey betwixt heaven and earth,
Then, alas! we are the same old dust of ten thousand ages.

LI BAI

"The Old Dust"

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The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

The Glory of Clementina