LIFE QUOTES VII
quotations about life
What is the course of the life
Of mortal men on the earth?--
Most men eddy about
Here and there--eat and drink,
Chatter and love and hate,
Gather and squander, are raised
Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust,
Striving blindly, achieving
Nothing; and, then they die--
Perish; and no one asks
Who or what they have been,
More than he asks what waves
In the moonlit solitudes mild
Of the midmost Ocean, have swell'd,
Foam'd for a moment, and gone.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Rugby Chapel
How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
"The Dramatic Art of Life", Prose Fancies
Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
letter to Kleiner, Cole, and Moe, October 1916
Life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
ZIG ZIGLAR
See You at the Top
Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost
Minute by minute, day by dragging day,
In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways,
The smooth appeasing compromises of time.
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
A Child is Born
The heart is like an instrument whose strings
Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.
GERALD MASSEY
"Wedded Love"
To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.
EMILY DICKINSON
letter to T. W. Higginson, winter 1871
I believe that this life is a journey home. Someone is calling us, someone we know as God, and whom others know by different names.
JAMES BEHRENS
Newton Citizen, May 19, 2016
Let us pounce
upon this red prey,
let us tear life
that passes throbbing
and lift together
our wild flight.
PABLO NERUDA
"The Condor"
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
Woman's Day Magazine, Jun. 1, 2007
Life is a constant education.
JESSICA REES
"It's vital that we rebuild local jazz...", Bridport & Lyme Regis News, September 1, 2016
Store well Life's sheaves, the grains of thought--
Your harvest will be good,
If sheaves are bound by ties of love,
And evil you've withstood.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
"Gathering of the Sheaves"
Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Tomorrow Is Now
A truce to philosophy! -- Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.
MARY SHELLEY
The Last Man
Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
What would life be if these few years
Of thankless toil and bitter tears
Were all and naught beyond?
An utter failure void of hope,
A sunless maze of narrow scope
Where phantoms of despair would grope
Throughout its narrow bound.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"Life's Fruition"