LIFE QUOTES XVII

quotations about life

The real thing is always going on somewhere else. When you're young you think it will come later. Later on you think it was earlier. When you are here, you think it is there--in India, in America, on Popocatepetl or somewhere. But when you get there, you find that life has doubled back and is quietly waiting here, here in the very place you ran away from.

VICKI BAUM

Grand Hotel

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Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse

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Life is all about people leaving.

SUSAN HUBBARD

The Society of S

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About the time we have subdued the fires of youth that threaten to consume us, we find ourselves battling with the infirmities of age.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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

GARRISON KEILLOR

A Prairie Home Companion, 2006


Rest not! Life is sweeping by;
Go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time!

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

"Haste Not--Rest Not"


Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Life Is Too Short"


Life should be a fruitful garden,
Fair in blossom, and rich in seed;
Conscience, the sharp and faithful warden,
Watchful against the frost and weed.
Study should its labyrinths trace
Where wisdom's pleasant waters flow;
And industry the garden grace
With plants that choicest gifts bestow.

C. B. LANGSTON

"What Should Life Be?"


The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

"Parliament of Fowls"

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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 is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

SAMUEL BUTLER

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


There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Mankind", Les Caractères

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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.

ANNE LAMOTT

"Time Lost and Found", Sunset

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Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

KELLY LINK

Stranger Things Happen

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Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
2 get through this thing called life.

PRINCE

"Let's Go Crazy"

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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


You're alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change.

NEIL GAIMAN

The Graveyard Book

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Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"A Woman's Apology"

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When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

GEORGE ELIOT

Janet's Repentance


Life is an uncertain flower--oft by the tempest o'erthrown.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims