LIFE QUOTES XXXVII

quotations about life

Life is a sculpture, chip, chip, chip. In good time, with good patience, even the most formidable rock can be shaped.

BERNARD BECKETT

Malcolm & Juliet

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Life is a parade of metamorphoses.

KATIE LESLIE

"How Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson's rough start in North Texas prepared her for tough job", Dallas Morning News, September 1, 2016


Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

JOHN DOS PASSOS

Three Soldiers

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The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.

DON DELILLO

Point Omega

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Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Adonais

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Life is the apprenticeship to progressive renunciation, to the steady diminution of our claims, of our hopes, of our powers, of our liberty.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"A Psalm of Life"


Life like a shroud on men and women lies.

MAURICE BROWNE

"At Dusk"


Life ... is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Thomas


He lived the life he lived, like anybody, I guess, and he paid his dues, like everybody. Maybe what I mean when I say he made his life so hard was that he always tried to pay his dues in front.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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Let me leap naked through life's testing flame,
And bear to lose, and yet endure to win.

KENNETH RAND

"The World-Slave"

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Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

JACK LONDON

The Sea-Wolf


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

UMBERTO ECO

Baudolino

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Life has possibilities; death has none.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

Human Nature and the Social Order

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Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible


I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

speech during the Great March on Detroit, Jun. 23, 1963

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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


Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods


Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life