LIFE QUOTES XXI

quotations about life

Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

WOODY ALLEN

Husbands and Wives

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Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

JEAN ANOUILH

Antigone

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Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.

PHILIP K. DICK

A Scanner Darkly

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Life is the thing--the song of life--
The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth Imperturbable"

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Life was a storm to wander through.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

"The Quality of Courage"

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Life! we have been long together,
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear;
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear;-
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time;
Say not Good-night, but in some brighter clime
Bid me Good-morning!

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

"Life! I Know Not What Thou Art"

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Life is sweet.

ENGLISH PROVERB

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To realize life as absolute is to be existentially emancipated from life itself in that very realization, which understands that life is not life. The same applies to death.

MASAO ABE

Zen and the Modern World

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Life is a luxury, isn't it? there's no use in it--but how delightful!

STELLA BENSON

This Is the End

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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Varieties of Religious Experience

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My life is a tree,
Yoke-fellow of the earth;
Pledged,
By roots too deep for remembrance,
To stand hard against the storm,
To fill by Place.
(But high in the branches of my green tree there is a wild bird singing:
Wind-free are the wings of my bird: she hath built no mortal nest.)

KARLE WILSON BAKER

The Tree

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Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

BENTLEY LITTLE

The Policy

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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

LIN YUTANG

The Literary Digest, 1938

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Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf


Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf

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Life is, alas, one eternal combat.

SARAH BERNHARDT

The Idol of Paris

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Life ain't in holdin' a good hand but in playin' a poor one well.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy--well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Apocalypse

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If you are good life is good.

ROALD DAHL

Matilda

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