LIFE QUOTES XXXVIII

quotations about life

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.

J. M. COETZEE

In the Heart of the Country

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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters


Life is a dance. To master it, we must master the rhythm of our lives.

MICHAEL MAMAS

"In the Rhythm of Life, Timing is Everything", Huffington Post, August 19, 2016


Scorn ye not the little things,
For life is made from them.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Little Things"


The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

BONG R. OSORIO

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose", The Philippine Star, June 20, 2016


Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Studies in Classic American Literature

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When people say that they are happy with their lives, they do not usually mean that they are literally joyful, or experiencing pleasure, all the time. They mean that, upon reflection on the balance sheet of pleasures and pains, they feel the balance to be reasonably positive over the long term.

DANIEL NETTLE

Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile

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Black river of torture, writhing senselessly, whirlpool of life, in vain I search thee for one moment's rest.

ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT

"Arizona"

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Life is the flash in black heavens.

HENRI CAZALIS

"Always"

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Work, whiskey, and cards were life.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives ... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Proud Highway


Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park

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The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

JEROME K. JEROME

"Reginald Blake, Financier and Cad"


Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

JOHN DOS PASSOS

Three Soldiers

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Life is a mixed bag of success and failure.

NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI

The Times of India, May 25, 2016


Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

ROGER ZELAZNY

Blood of Amber

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The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Jacob's Room


Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living


Life ... is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Thomas


This is the strange contract between life and language: language keeps naming and life, like a woman seductively escaping her seducer's caress, keeps just a little beyond its names.

GLEN DUNCAN

By Blood We Live

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