LIFE QUOTES XXXIX

quotations about life

Human life when rightly lived is simple ... but it is not rightly lived while it is bound to a complexity of lusts, desires, and wants -- these are not the real life but the burning fever and painful disease which originate in an unenlightened condition of mind.

JAMES ALLEN

Byways of Blessedness

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It is a matter of embracing one's only life, even though this life so often seems to be, merely, one's doom. And it is, in a way, though not "merely." But to refuse the doom of one's only life is to be trapped outside all nourishment.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park

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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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Activity does not necessarily mean life.

PHILIP K. DICK

A Scanner Darkly


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


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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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

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

LOLA RIDGE

"Comrades"

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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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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 like a shroud on men and women lies.

MAURICE BROWNE

"At Dusk"


To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

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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

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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


You sit
Like a rain puddle in hell
Knitting the socks
Of your life.

CHARLES SIMIC

My Noiseless Entourage

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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