LIFE QUOTES XXXVIII

quotations about life

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

JACK LONDON

John Barleycorn

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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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Life is the flash in black heavens.

HENRI CAZALIS

"Always"

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By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

GRENVILLE KLEISER

Dictionary of Proverbs

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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

DANIEL DEFOE

Robinson Crusoe

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Every day is the same thing out the door
Feel further away then ever before
Some things in life, it gets too late to learn
Well, I'm lost somewhere
I must have made a few bad turns

BOB DYLAN

"Highlands"


What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

UMBERTO ECO

Baudolino

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Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Adonais

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It is a matter of embracing one's only life, even though this life so often seems to be, merely, one's doom. And it is, in a way, though not "merely." But to refuse the doom of one's only life is to be trapped outside all nourishment.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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We had crossed from death into what certainly sounded like life. And not only did it sound like life, it looked like life; and not only did it look like life, it looked like a particular life, a life which was a particular reproach to me.

JAMES BALDWIN

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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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

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The greatest philosophy of life should be to live for the benefit of others as much as one lives for the benefit of self. And that is what philosophers call a footprint on the sands of time.

FEMI ABBAS

"A decade of royalty and faith", The Nation, September 2, 2016


Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

EUGENE O'NEILL

Lazarus Laughed

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My definition of life is a series of experiences, and the more you have the better off you are.

EMILY FEISTRITZER

"Former nun sees life as a series of experiences, including lucrative ones", Washington Post, August 21, 2016


Short is life, but endless is the theme.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Life ... is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Thomas


It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

TIMOTHY LEARY

Your Brain Is God

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Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

ROGER ZELAZNY

Blood of Amber

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Life -- and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison -- is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

NEIL GAIMAN

Death Talks About Life

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