LIFE QUOTES XV

quotations about life

I warmed both hands before the fire of Life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

I Strove with None, for None was Worth My Strife

Tags: Walter Savage Landor


Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Life Is Too Short"


Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

Tags: Carlos Ruiz Zafon


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

STEPHEN KING

Joyland

Tags: Stephen King


In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Studies in Animal Life

Tags: George Henry Lewes


To have found meaning in life is thus the only certain antidote to the deliberate seeking of death. But at the same time, in a strange dialectical way, it is death that endows life with its deepest, most unique meaning.

BRUNO BETTELHEIM

Surviving the Holocaust

Tags: Bruno Bettelheim


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

Tags: Edward Fitzgerald


Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse

Tags: Virginia Woolf


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

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

Tags: Benjamin Franklin


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

Tags: Margaret Atwood


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

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Paris Review, fall 2000


All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

SRI AUROBINDO

Gems from Sri Aurobindo


Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?

MARY OLIVER

"Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?", West Wind

Tags: Mary Oliver


Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

Tags: James Baldwin


Life is too short to blend in.

PARIS HILTON

Confessions of an Heiress

Tags: Paris Hilton


Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

Tags: Ivan Panin


Life is being, not having.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.

DON DELILLO

Underworld

Tags: Don DeLillo


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"


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

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis

Tags: Robert E. Howard