LIFE QUOTES V

quotations about life

life quote

Life is a riddle we die in guessing.

CLARA MARCELLE FARRAR GREENE

"Before the Wedding"

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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

DEAN KOONTZ

Brother Odd


Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

MARY OLIVER

"The Summer Day", New and Selected Poems

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Life is very like a battle or a game of chess; and there ought to be some plan of the campaign.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays


Football is a team game. So is life.

JOE NAMATH

attributed, Where Football Is King

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You should live everyday like it's your birthday.

PARIS HILTON

attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations


Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth

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This is one of those days which I am obliged to record as almost a blank in my existence.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS

diary, November 23, 1837

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The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

Yerma

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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

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Life is but a prelude.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

JOANNE HARRIS

Chocolat

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Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

G. K. CHESTERTON

Orthodoxy

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Come on, Marge, I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls. I'm sick of eating hoagies. I want a grinder, a sub, a foot-long hero. I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live? Won't you, please?!

HOMER SIMPSON

"Fear of Flying", The Simpsons

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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

IRVIN D. YALOM

When Nietzsche Wept

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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

"War Shrines", Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies

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There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence -- or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

The Lost Worlds of 2001

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So it is with all life. A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I'll have tomorrow for having felt regret today.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Book of Disquiet

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Still all the day the iron wheels go onward,
Grinding life down from its mark.

GERALD MASSEY

"The Cry of the Children"