LIFE QUOTES XX

quotations about life

Lives are snowflakes -- forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

NEIL GAIMAN

American Gods


About the time we have subdued the fires of youth that threaten to consume us, we find ourselves battling with the infirmities of age.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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The best life is that which makes the best of life.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Life is getting what you want, and I'm better at life than you are.

JEFF ABBOTT

Adrenaline

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Life is a series of obstacles. It's not supposed to be easy. It is how you deal with these obstacles that define you as a person.

RAUL CARRANZA

"UC San Diego grad with muscular dystrophy shows incredible strength to achieve his dreams", University of California, June 16, 2016


Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

KELLY LINK

Stranger Things Happen

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So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Mr G: A Novel About the Creation

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What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

DORIS LESSING

The Golden Notebook

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Life is like checkers. When you reach the top, you can move wherever you want.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

journal, Mar. 1859

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How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

PHILIP ROTH

The Professor of Desire

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

attributed, The Waking Dream

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That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet

EMILY DICKINSON

"That it will never come again"


Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men.
Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth,
now the living timber bursts with the new buds
and spring comes round again. And so with men:
as one generation comes to life, another dies away.

HOMER

The Iliad

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There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

SAUL BELLOW

AGNI interview, 1997


That life is brief hath seemed a piteous thing
Since the first mortal watched it glide away.
And sad it is that flowers have but one day,
And sad that birds have little time to sing;
That joy is fleeting as the bloom of Spring;
That youth so soon is startled from its play,
And manhood from its labor, to essay
The old vain struggle with the shadowy King.
But sadder far it is that life is long;
Ay, long enough for bliss to turn to bale,
For innocence to lose the dread of wrong,
For hearts to harden, love itself to fail;
And faith be wearied out (O, sad and strange!)
Unless Death save us from the deathly change.

CAROLINE SPENCER

"Life"

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

DON DELILLO

Underworld

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Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

EDGAR GUEST

Home Rhymes

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Life, how sweet soever it seems, is a draught mingled with bitter ingredients; some drink deeper than others before they come at them: But, if they do not swim at the top for youth to taste them, it is ten to one but old age will find them thick at the bottom. And it is the employment of faith and patience, and the work of wisdom and virtue, to teach us to drink the sweet part down with pleasure and thankfulness, and to swallow the bitter without reluctance.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


Life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

GARRISON KEILLOR

A Prairie Home Companion, 2006