LIFE QUOTES V
quotations about life
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
A shiftless clerk, I take the days on trust,
Nor strip them of their spoil before they go.
KARLE WILSON BAKER
"The Dusty Way", Blue Smoke
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
A Visit to Funen with Hans Christian Andersen
Life is a riddle we die in guessing.
CLARA MARCELLE FARRAR GREENE
"Before the Wedding"
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
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored
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
Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
JOANNE HARRIS
Chocolat
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SOPHOCLES
Philoctetes
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
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
IRVIN D. YALOM
When Nietzsche Wept
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
We have come to the wrong star ... That is what makes life at once so splendid and so strange. The true happiness is that we don't fit. We come from somewhere else. We have lost our way.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Orthodoxy
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
"War Shrines", Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies
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
Life is but a prelude.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Still all the day the iron wheels go onward,
Grinding life down from its mark.
GERALD MASSEY
"The Cry of the Children"
If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?
HANNAH ARENDT
Men in Dark Times
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