LIFE QUOTES XIX

quotations about life

Life is an illusion to be tailored to our needs.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen


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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Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


The evil fortune of the living in no way affects the dead.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

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You're alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change.

NEIL GAIMAN

The Graveyard Book

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

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You Learn by Living

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Once introduced into this world, life would never leave--there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more.

GREGORY BENFORD

Against Infinity

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Anything in life is possible if you make it happen.

JACK LALANNE

Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness

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Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.

MARY ANNE RADMACHER

Honey In Your Heart

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

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Hours

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That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Paris Review, spring 2009

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About the time we have subdued the fires of youth that threaten to consume us, we find ourselves battling with the infirmities of age.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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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


Life is getting what you want, and I'm better at life than you are.

JEFF ABBOTT

Adrenaline

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Lives are snowflakes -- forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

NEIL GAIMAN

American Gods


His dangerous, overwhelming lust for life had failed to involve him in anything deeper than perhaps half a dozen extremely casual acquaintanceships in about as many bars.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

FRANK HERBERT

Dune Messiah

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He or she who has made the best of the life after death has made the best of the life before it.

SAMUEL BUTLER

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


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

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