LIFE QUOTES XXVIII

quotations about life

Every day is a careful balance fought between the despondency that threatens to swamp me and the incredible joy of living.

CHRIS ABANI

Kalakuta Republic

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Life is a series of abandonings.

JEFF ABBOTT

The Last Minute

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I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

BHARTRHARI

"Against the Desire of Worldly Things"

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Living is a hazardous profession.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne

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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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I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.

JOSH GROBAN

O Magazine, Jan. 2007

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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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Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible


Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune


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 was a storm to wander through.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

"The Quality of Courage"

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Life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Reveries over Childhood and Youth

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Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

1Q84

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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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Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON

Man and the Cosmos: An Introduction to Metaphysics

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There is no normal life. There is only life.

ANNE RICE

The Wolves of Midwinter


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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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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I think you've got to be truthful about the life you have. Otherwise, there's no possibility of achieving the life you want.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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And if sometimes, commingled with life's wine,
We find the wormwood, and rebel and shrink,
Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine
Pours out this potion for our lips to drink.

MAY RILEY SMITH

"Sometime"