LIFE QUOTES XXVIII

quotations about life

Living is a hazardous profession.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne

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The loves and hours of the life of a man,
They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

The Triumph of Time


Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

C. S. LEWIS

The Magician's Nephew

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Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf

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Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.

JOHN BARTH

The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

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Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk


Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk


I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.

TIM ALLEN

Reader's Digest, Oct. 2001


Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia

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Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

FRANK HERBERT

Heretics of Dune


Funny. You talk of life as if it were a train you have to catch up with. How long have you been trying, three days? And not got a glimpse of it yet, in spite of caviar and champagne?

VICKI BAUM

Grand Hotel


Anything in life is possible if you make it happen.

JACK LALANNE

Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness

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Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

WALTER LIPPMANN

Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

preface, Autobiography


Life is sad
Life is a bust
All ya can do is do what you must

BOB DYLAN

"Buckets of Rain"

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A life ill spent makes a sad old age.

SPANISH PROVERB


Q: Is life a dream or a meditation? A: Life is a meditation when you know it is a dream.

BABA HARI DASS

Yoga Journal, May 1977

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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Women in Love


Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

NORA ROBERTS

Vision in White

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Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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