LIFE QUOTES XV

quotations about life

In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Studies in Animal Life

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

EMILY DICKINSON

"That it will never come again"


Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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Life is wasted on the living.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

JULIAN BARNES

Talking It Over

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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

MARY OLIVER

"Sometimes", Red Bird


I warmed both hands before the fire of Life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

I Strove with None, for None was Worth My Strife

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To have found meaning in life is thus the only certain antidote to the deliberate seeking of death. But at the same time, in a strange dialectical way, it is death that endows life with its deepest, most unique meaning.

BRUNO BETTELHEIM

Surviving the Holocaust

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Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Sea

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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky

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Life should be touched, not strangled.

RAY BRADBURY

Farewell Summer

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Life does turn on so many queer things ... ball bearings and banana skins.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Paris Review, fall 2000


For drinking Life there are two cups:
The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy --
Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

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There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Mankind", Les Caractères

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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

"Parliament of Fowls"

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Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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One Moment in Annihilation's Waste,
One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste--
The Stars are Setting and the Caravan
Starts for the Dawn of Nothing -- Oh, make haste!

EDWARD FITZGERALD

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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Nothing was certain; there were many strange twists and devious turns as one hopped down the overgrown bunnytrail of life.

STEPHEN KING

"Big Driver", Full Dark, No Stars

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