LIFE QUOTES XVI

quotations about life

Life is too short to blend in.

PARIS HILTON

Confessions of an Heiress

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Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

PHILIP ROTH

American Pastoral


I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

RANSOM RIGGS

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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Life should be a fruitful garden,
Fair in blossom, and rich in seed;
Conscience, the sharp and faithful warden,
Watchful against the frost and weed.
Study should its labyrinths trace
Where wisdom's pleasant waters flow;
And industry the garden grace
With plants that choicest gifts bestow.

C. B. LANGSTON

"What Should Life Be?"


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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Weeks passed, a whirl of lights and sound and laughter, a fever dream, vertiginous, roaring, mad, he quit his job, not caring what came after, and struck out blindly; money enough he had, and life, by Christ, would go now as he bade; he got it by the throat, he was its master; sing! went his whip, and life danced on the faster.

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"


Life is an uncertain flower--oft by the tempest o'erthrown.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Life is sweet.

ENGLISH PROVERB

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Theologian's Tale", Tales of a Wayside Inn

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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women

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Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Life Is Too Short"


Life has an--an irony all its own. What you wish for, you get, but you discover that it's not what you want.

JOHN AUSTIN CONNOLLY

The Boys from Siam

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

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis

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A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

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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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Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Philosophical Essays

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Where I come from in the Eastern Region, life is still -- well, things are changing very fast but if one is interested, one can still see signs of what life used to look like.

CHINUA ACHEBE

Conversations with Chinua Achebe

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You have not lost all when you have life.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Life, with the Soul predominant,
Is a noble mosaic, a bewitching arabesque.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Song of the Soul"

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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

My Day

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