LIFE QUOTES XVI

quotations about life

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

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

"Parliament of Fowls"

Tags: Geoffrey Chaucer


Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis

Tags: Robert E. Howard


All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

SRI AUROBINDO

Gems from Sri Aurobindo


Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Ethics of Ambiguity


Life is being, not having.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


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

Tags: Edward Fitzgerald


Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
2 get through this thing called life.

PRINCE

"Let's Go Crazy"

Tags: Prince


Life is sweet.

ENGLISH PROVERB

Tags: English proverbs


Weeks passed, a whirl of lights and sound and laughter, a fever dream, vertiginous, roaring, mad, he quit his job, not caring what came after, and struck out blindly; money enough he had, and life, by Christ, would go now as he bade; he got it by the throat, he was its master; sing! went his whip, and life danced on the faster.

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"


It's your life -- but only if you make it so.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You Learn by Living

Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt


You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. you fight. you cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.

MARILYN MONROE

My Story

Tags: Marilyn Monroe


Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy--well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Apocalypse

Tags: Dean Koontz


Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.

LOUISE ERDRICH

Love Medicine


The whole world's a bottle,
And life's but a dram,
When the bottle gets empty,
It sure ain't worth a damn.

BOB DYLAN

"Moonshiner"


The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune


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

DON DELILLO

Underworld

Tags: Don DeLillo


Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The Ghost in My Life

Tags: Susan B. Anthony


Rest not! Life is sweeping by;
Go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time!

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

"Haste Not--Rest Not"


You have not lost all when you have life.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon