LIFE QUOTES XIX

quotations about life

It is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

CHARLES DICKENS

Great Expectations


If a man knew how to live he would never die.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

All the King's Men

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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment -- the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz"


I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

SAUL BELLOW

Henderson the Rain King

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There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

SAUL BELLOW

AGNI interview, 1997


When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat;
Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay:
To-morrow's falser than the former day;
Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest
With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.

JOHN DRYDEN

Aureng-Zebe

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The whole world's a bottle,
And life's but a dram,
When the bottle gets empty,
It sure ain't worth a damn.

BOB DYLAN

"Moonshiner"


I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

STEPHEN HAWKING

The Daily News

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The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune


Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

"Ashes of Life"

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Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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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Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Mosquitoes

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Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"A Woman's Apology"

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I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

CHARLES DICKENS

A Christmas Carol

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Life calls the tune, we dance.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Five Tales

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

JACK LONDON

White Fang


Stop and consider! life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree's summit.

JOHN KEATS

"Sleep and Poetry"

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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

JACK LONDON

The Call of the Wild

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