LIFE QUOTES XVIII

quotations about life

Life is not life unless we can feel it.

SAMUEL BUTLER

"How to Make the Best of Life", Essays on Life, Art and Science


Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

journal, Mar. 1859

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I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

SAUL BELLOW

Henderson the Rain King

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Life, how sweet soever it seems, is a draught mingled with bitter ingredients; some drink deeper than others before they come at them: But, if they do not swim at the top for youth to taste them, it is ten to one but old age will find them thick at the bottom. And it is the employment of faith and patience, and the work of wisdom and virtue, to teach us to drink the sweet part down with pleasure and thankfulness, and to swallow the bitter without reluctance.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


Life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

GARRISON KEILLOR

A Prairie Home Companion, 2006


Life is a continual march towards the grave.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Much too oft we make life gloomy--
When happy we might be,
If we gathered more of sunshine,
And not dark shadows see.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

Thoughts


Ah, what is life!
'T is but a passing touch upon the world;
A print upon the beaches of the earth
Next flowing wave will wash away.

ANNA KATHERINE GREEN

"Life"

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Life is a constant series of new and familiar challenges, adversities that wax and wane until the end.

ANDREW PASCHAL

"Singles Going Steady", PopMatters, September 1, 2016


Life is a series of obstacles. It's not supposed to be easy. It is how you deal with these obstacles that define you as a person.

RAUL CARRANZA

"UC San Diego grad with muscular dystrophy shows incredible strength to achieve his dreams", University of California, June 16, 2016


He or she who has made the best of the life after death has made the best of the life before it.

SAMUEL BUTLER

"How to Make the Best of Life", Essays on Life, Art and Science


If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged, ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known. Nevertheless, the recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year.

ALICE MEYNELL

"The Rhythm of Life", The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays


Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

MARY OLIVER

"Storm in Massachusetts, September 1982", Dream Work


Life! we have been long together,
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear;
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear;-
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time;
Say not Good-night, but in some brighter clime
Bid me Good-morning!

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

"Life! I Know Not What Thou Art"

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What is life but a series of inspired follies?

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Pygmalion

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The difficulties of life are intended to make us better--not bitter.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

The Power of Thinking Big


Life was a storm to wander through.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

"The Quality of Courage"

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If a man knew how to live he would never die.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

All the King's Men

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Coming of Age

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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment -- the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz"