quotations about life
This is the strange contract between life and language: language keeps naming and life, like a woman seductively escaping her seducer's caress, keeps just a little beyond its names.
GLEN DUNCAN
By Blood We Live
A life knows few revelations; these must be followed when they come.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit at Rest
So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
"Broken Music"
Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.
TIMOTHY LEARY
Your Brain Is God
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
UMBERTO ECO
Baudolino
Activity does not necessarily mean life.
PHILIP K. DICK
A Scanner Darkly
Life like a shroud on men and women lies.
MAURICE BROWNE
"At Dusk"
Life is distressing insomuch as we give exaggerated importance to altogether unimportant matters. Drifting along, I have observed that we men and women disturb ourselves about trifles, overlooking in the needless excitement the innumerable beauties which wait upon the way. Every ripple is not a wave, every wind is not a hurricane. Why worry whilst we are still upon the stream? It will be time enough to trouble when we meet the sea.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
But life is not the wax or wick of the candle, it is the burning. It is not the complex nitrates and the carbon compounds in which it sits but their combustion.
BAKER BROWNELL
The New Universe