LIFE QUOTES
quotations about life
My mistakes are my life.
SAMUEL BECKETT
How It Is
Life is hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.
MICHAEL CRICHTON
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Inch by inch. Life is a cinch. Yard by yard. Life is hard.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit Redux
Most important thing in life ... is learning how to fall.
JEANNETTE WALLS
Half Broke Horses
I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I'll hit back. It's a classic rope-a-dope.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
La La Land
We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.
THICH NHAT HANH
Peace is Every Step
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Life is hard. After all, it kills you!
KATHARINE HEPBURN
attributed, Katharine Hepburn Once Said...
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross, and which to burn.
DAVID RUSSELL
attributed, Good Morning: 365 Positive Ways to Start Your Day
Life is a long lesson in humility.
J.M. BARRIE
The Little Minister
Time
Like a petal in the wind
Flows softly by
As old lives are taken
New ones begin
A continual chain
Which lasts throughout eternity
Every life but a minute in time
But each of equal importance
CINDY CHENEY
"Time"
The road is life.
JACK KEROUAC
On the Road
The fine art of Life is to make
Another Soul vibrate with a song of joy.
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"The Song of the Soul"
Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
letter to Theo van Gogh, Oct. 1884
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Life don't owe you nothing.
AUGUST WILSON
Fences
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realize you were alive now.
CARYL CHURCHILL
Mad Forest
Life is like walking through Paradise with peas in your shoes.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.
LILLIAN HELLMAN
The Autumn Garden
One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
SOPHOCLES
Oedipus at Colonus