LIFE QUOTES XXIV

quotations about life

Man reaches each stage in his life as a novice.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


Much too oft we make life gloomy--
When happy we might be,
If we gathered more of sunshine,
And not dark shadows see.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

Thoughts


Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

DAN SIMMONS

Hyperion

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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

JOHN ELDREDGE

Desire


The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

ALBERT CAMUS

attributed, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd


A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover


Behold the life at ease; it drifts,
The sharpened life commands its course.

GEORGE MEREDITH

"Hard Weather"

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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.

JACK LONDON

The Sea Wolf

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For some reason or the other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured--disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui--in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.

HENRY MILLER

Tropic of Cancer

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It's only life. We all get through it.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Hours

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Life is a Shylock; always it demands
The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure.
Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands;
We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"The Law"


Life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly
A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

"Shine, Perishing Republic"

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Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

NORA ROBERTS

From the Heart

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Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus

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Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

MICHAEL J. FOX

Good Housekeeping, June 2011

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No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

WILLIAM MATHEWS

Hints on Success in Life


One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Coming of Age

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The best life is that which makes the best of life.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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The rich pearl of life,
Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

ISAAC MCLELLAN

"Musings"

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When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

HEATHER SELLERS

Good Housekeeping, Jan. 2011