LIFE QUOTES XVII

quotations about life

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

SAMUEL BUTLER

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


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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Life calls the tune, we dance.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Five Tales

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Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

JOHN KEATS

letter to John Hamilton Reynolds, May 3, 1818

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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment -- the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz"


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

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Paris Review, fall 2000


What is life but a series of inspired follies?

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Pygmalion

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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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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 a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

SAUL ALINSKY

Rules for Radicals

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Life is a process of modification and descent, rather than genesis. There was never a moment when an egg hatched a brand new thing called a chicken, or when a chicken produced, unexpectedly, something bizarre called an egg.

JOEL ACHENBACH

"The 4 biggest milestones in the history of life on Earth", Albuquerque Journal, September 1, 2016


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

JOHN BANVILLE

The Sea

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Life is, alas, one eternal combat.

SARAH BERNHARDT

The Idol of Paris

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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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Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf


Life is all about people leaving.

SUSAN HUBBARD

The Society of S

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

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The Ghost in My Life

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