LIFE QUOTES XVI

quotations about life

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

journal, Mar. 1859

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Where they were not alive with rottenness, quick with unclean life, there were merely the unburied dead -- clean and noble, like well-preserved mummies, but not alive.

JACK LONDON

"What Life Means to Me", Revolution and Other Essays

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Life is too short to blend in.

PARIS HILTON

Confessions of an Heiress

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

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Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life

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Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.

JEAN ANOUILH

Antigone

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Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Life Is Too Short"


There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

SAUL BELLOW

AGNI interview, 1997


Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men.
Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth,
now the living timber bursts with the new buds
and spring comes round again. And so with men:
as one generation comes to life, another dies away.

HOMER

The Iliad

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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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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

SAUL ALINSKY

Rules for Radicals

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Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Sea

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Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Obsidian Butterfly

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Life is a continual march towards the grave.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

SRI AUROBINDO

Savitri

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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment -- the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz"


There is more to life than not dying.

CASSANDRA CLARE

Clockwork Angel

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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


To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura