LIFE QUOTES XV

quotations about life

Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Life Is Too Short"


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

STEPHEN KING

Joyland

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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

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The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Mrs. Bingham, Feb. 7, 1787

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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

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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


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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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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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

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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


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

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse

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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

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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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Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
2 get through this thing called life.

PRINCE

"Let's Go Crazy"

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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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Life is too short to blend in.

PARIS HILTON

Confessions of an Heiress

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Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky

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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

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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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