LIFE QUOTES XXXIX

quotations about life

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Jacob's Room


Activity does not necessarily mean life.

PHILIP K. DICK

A Scanner Darkly


Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives ... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Proud Highway


Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park

Tags: Jane Austen


Life -- and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison -- is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

NEIL GAIMAN

Death Talks About Life

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Scorn ye not the little things,
For life is made from them.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Little Things"


Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks...

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Rum Diary

Tags: Hunter S. Thompson


Life
You have been good to me....
You have not made yourself too dear
to juggle with.

LOLA RIDGE

"Comrades"

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Black river of torture, writhing senselessly, whirlpool of life, in vain I search thee for one moment's rest.

ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT

"Arizona"

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Life is the flash in black heavens.

HENRI CAZALIS

"Always"

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We had crossed from death into what certainly sounded like life. And not only did it sound like life, it looked like life; and not only did it look like life, it looked like a particular life, a life which was a particular reproach to me.

JAMES BALDWIN

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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Life is a cycle of both suffering and pleasure. One doesn't exist without the other.

VENERABLE POMNYUN

"How Can We Create A Happy Life For Ourselves And A More Just Society?", Huffington Post, August 15, 2016


Life -- a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

"Is Civilization Progress?", Reader's Digest, July 1964

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Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

ELIZABETH LESSER

The New American Spirituality: A Seeker's Guide

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Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

TIMOTHY LEARY

Your Brain Is God

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What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

UMBERTO ECO

Baudolino

Tags: Umberto Eco


Life like a shroud on men and women lies.

MAURICE BROWNE

"At Dusk"


A life knows few revelations; these must be followed when they come.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit at Rest


Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters


A bubble of air in the blood, a drop of water in the brain, and a man is out of gear, his machine falls to pieces, his thought vanishes, the world disappears from him like a dream at morning. On what a spider thread is hung our individual existence!

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime