LIFE QUOTES XXI

quotations about life

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

FRANK HERBERT

Dune Messiah

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

DON DELILLO

Underworld

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Trifles make the sum of life.

CHARLES DICKENS

David Copperfield

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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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Life unshared has scarce a charm.

C. B. LANGSTON

"Solitude"


As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

BRAM STOKER

"The Jewel of the Seven Stars"

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Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life

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The evil fortune of the living in no way affects the dead.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

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Life consists of burning up questions.

ANTONIN ARTAUD

Selected Writings

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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

ANNE LAMOTT

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith


Life is a constant series of new and familiar challenges, adversities that wax and wane until the end.

ANDREW PASCHAL

"Singles Going Steady", PopMatters, September 1, 2016


Life was a storm to wander through.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

"The Quality of Courage"

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Life is a luxury, isn't it? there's no use in it--but how delightful!

STELLA BENSON

This Is the End

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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

SENECA

Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales

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If a man knew how to live he would never die.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

All the King's Men

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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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Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus

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The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"On Life", Essays and Letters


In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning:
Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


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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