LIFE QUOTES XXV

quotations about life

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

JOSÉ BERGAMÍN

Head in the Clouds

Tags: José Bergamín


The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"On Life", Essays and Letters


The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Lila

Tags: Robert M. Pirsig


Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

SRI AUROBINDO

attributed, Humanimal

Tags: Sri Aurobindo


The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

ALBERT CAMUS

attributed, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd


Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

FRANCIS BACON

Advancement of Learning

Tags: Francis Bacon


The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

JEROME K. JEROME

"The Materialisation of Charles and Mivanway"

Tags: Jerome K. Jerome


Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

The Traveler

Tags: John Twelve Hawks


I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

STEPHEN HAWKING

The Daily News

Tags: Stephen Hawking


If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

STEPHENIE MEYER

Breaking Dawn

Tags: Stephenie Meyer


Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

Tags: Walter Bagehot


Life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Reveries over Childhood and Youth

Tags: William Butler Yeats


To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

BERTOLT BRECHT

On Politics and Society

Tags: Bertolt Brecht


There is more to life than not dying.

CASSANDRA CLARE

Clockwork Angel

Tags: Cassandra Clare


Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.

DONALD TRUMP

interview, Playboy, Mar. 1990

Tags: Donald Trump


If we could live for a million years, then maybe it would be worthwhile to create some problems. But our life is short. Now you see, we are guests here on this planet, visitors who have come for a short time, so we need to use our days wisely, to make our world a little better for everyone.

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Book of Joy

Tags: Douglas Carlton Abrams


If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

EDWARD ALBEE

The Play About the Baby

Tags: Edward Albee


Life is not a bed of roses.

ENGLISH PROVERB


Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

1Q84

Tags: Haruki Murakami