LIFE QUOTES XV

quotations about life

Life is wasted on the living.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

"Parliament of Fowls"

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Life is too short to blend in.

PARIS HILTON

Confessions of an Heiress

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Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

STEPHEN KING

Joyland

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Life is being, not having.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis

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One Moment in Annihilation's Waste,
One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste--
The Stars are Setting and the Caravan
Starts for the Dawn of Nothing -- Oh, make haste!

EDWARD FITZGERALD

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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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

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Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Life Is Too Short"


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

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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.

LOUISE ERDRICH

Love Medicine


Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

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Life does turn on so many queer things ... ball bearings and banana skins.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Paris Review, fall 2000


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

JOHN BANVILLE

The Sea

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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Mrs. Cosway, Oct. 12, 1786

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The whole world's a bottle,
And life's but a dram,
When the bottle gets empty,
It sure ain't worth a damn.

BOB DYLAN

"Moonshiner"


Nothing was certain; there were many strange twists and devious turns as one hopped down the overgrown bunnytrail of life.

STEPHEN KING

"Big Driver", Full Dark, No Stars

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You have not lost all when you have life.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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

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Ah, what is life!
'T is but a passing touch upon the world;
A print upon the beaches of the earth
Next flowing wave will wash away.

ANNA KATHERINE GREEN

"Life"

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