LIFE QUOTES IV

quotations about life

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All life is a dream, my children, but you are not the dreamer; the Dreamer rests on a bed of down plucked from the breast of the swan of eternity. He turns in His sleep sometimes, and a world comes to an end; He smiles in His sleep sometimes, and men know the Golden Age; sometimes He is restless, too, and the revolutions come. Will the Dreamer never awake? Who knows! I would hold Him sleeping; For if He should rise from His nest on the down of eternity, He might rub His drowsy eyes -- and I should forget to be.

ELSA BARKER

Songs of a Vagrom Angel

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Life is very like a battle or a game of chess; and there ought to be some plan of the campaign.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays


All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

BLAISE PASCAL

Pensees

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A shiftless clerk, I take the days on trust,
Nor strip them of their spoil before they go.

KARLE WILSON BAKER

"The Dusty Way", Blue Smoke

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Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

EMMA LAZARUS

obituary, Century Magazine, 1887

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Life is the root of Eden's loftiest tree
Whose ripened fruit is immortality.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"God's Gift to Man"

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Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Q, August, 1992

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Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

attributed, Only Mystery: Federico García Lorca's Poetry in Word and Image


How small a porton of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Life is a moment stolen from eternity.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Life is a means of extracting fiction.

ROBERT STONE

attributed, Writers at Work

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There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Where the Blue Begins

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This is one of those days which I am obliged to record as almost a blank in my existence.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS

diary, November 23, 1837

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Football is a team game. So is life.

JOE NAMATH

attributed, Where Football Is King

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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth

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How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth, we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

DEAN KOONTZ

Brother Odd


Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

SOPHOCLES

Philoctetes

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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

A Visit to Funen with Hans Christian Andersen

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