LIFE QUOTES XV

quotations about life

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura


It's your life -- but only if you make it so.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You Learn by Living

Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt


Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

MARK TWAIN

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Tags: Mark Twain


Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Sea

Tags: John Banville


One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

Tags: Amos Bronson Alcott


Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola


Where they were not alive with rottenness, quick with unclean life, there were merely the unburied dead -- clean and noble, like well-preserved mummies, but not alive.

JACK LONDON

"What Life Means to Me", Revolution and Other Essays

Tags: Jack London


Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Philosophical Essays

Tags: Bertrand Russell


As you speed along the highway of life ... you might pause and consider. When everything's coming your way, maybe you're driving in the wrong lane.

JOSEPH FINDER

Paranoia

Tags: Joseph Finder


Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Obsidian Butterfly

Tags: Laurell K. Hamilton


You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. you fight. you cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.

MARILYN MONROE

My Story

Tags: Marilyn Monroe


Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Tags: Christian Nestell Bovee


The trouble with life ... is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it's always the same beginning; and the same ending.

MARTIN AMIS

introduction, Experience

Tags: Martin Amis


Life is not life unless we can feel it.

SAMUEL BUTLER

"How to Make the Best of Life", Essays on Life, Art and Science


As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

BRAM STOKER

"The Jewel of the Seven Stars"

Tags: Bram Stoker


Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

letter to Ottoline Morrell, Dec. 17, 1920


Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

journal, Mar. 1859

Tags: Louisa May Alcott


For drinking Life there are two cups:
The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy --
Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood

Tags: Margaret Atwood


Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.

CYRIL CONNOLLY

The Unquiet Grave

Tags: Cyril Connolly


The difficulties of life are intended to make us better--not bitter.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

The Power of Thinking Big