LIFE QUOTES XXIX

quotations about life

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

FRED ALLEN

Fred Allen's Letters

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Living is a hazardous profession.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne

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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

RITA MAE BROWN

Hounded to Death

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One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.

KOBO ABE

The Woman in the Dunes

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So life discloses--
Howe'er the pathway curve or turn--
New hopes that rise, new stars that burn
In changing splendor night or day;
New joys that drive old griefs away.

ANDREW DOWNING

"Among the Roses"

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There is no normal life. There is only life.

ANNE RICE

The Wolves of Midwinter


This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

The Shack

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To realize life as absolute is to be existentially emancipated from life itself in that very realization, which understands that life is not life. The same applies to death.

MASAO ABE

Zen and the Modern World

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When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

HEATHER SELLERS

Good Housekeeping, Jan. 2011


Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

MARK TWAIN

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Any state of life contents if we know no other.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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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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


God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

Reader's Digest, July 1972


How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

"Two Moods"

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

DANIEL DEFOE

Robinson Crusoe

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I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.

ELIZABETH LESSER

Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

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If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

ROBERT FULGHUM

Uh-Oh

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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

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It's only life. We all get through it.

DEAN KOONTZ

Dark Rivers of the Heart

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