LIFE QUOTES VI
quotations about life
Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.
WALTER LIPPMANN
Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Cyrus' Garden
I sat in amazement, the translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.
SUE MONK KIDD
The Mermaid Chair
So it is with all life. A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I'll have tomorrow for having felt regret today.
FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet
What would life be if these few years
Of thankless toil and bitter tears
Were all and naught beyond?
An utter failure void of hope,
A sunless maze of narrow scope
Where phantoms of despair would grope
Throughout its narrow bound.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"Life's Fruition"
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
CHARLES DE LINT
The Ivory and the Horn
Life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott
Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere. The great art is to get and to keep out of them.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Do not take life too seriously--you will never get out of it alive.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
Life is a merciless reflection of your own attitude.
DANIEL ASQUINO
"Asquino tells MWCC grads: 'Life is a merciless reflection of your own attitude'", Worcester Telegram, May 18, 2016
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
J.M. BARRIE
The Little Minister
I believe everything in life is energy. If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
ELLEN DEGENERES
Good Housekeeping, Oct. 2011
Life is a constant education.
JESSICA REES
"It's vital that we rebuild local jazz...", Bridport & Lyme Regis News, September 1, 2016
The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
ZIG ZIGLAR
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