E. B. White: Quotes about life

“Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half asleep.”

E. B. White

Foreword to revised edition (1982)
One Man's Meat (1942)
Context: Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half asleep. I think of those five years in Maine as the time when this happened to me … I was suddenly seeing, feeling, and listening as a child sees, feels, and listens. It was one of those rare interludes that can never be repeated, a time of enchantment. I am fortunate indeed to have had the chance to get some of it down on paper.

Life

“I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.”

E. B. White

"Death of a Pig," The Atlantic Monthly (January 1948)

Life , Chance

“Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.”

E. B. White

Letter to Mary Virginia Parrish (29 August 1969)

Love , Life

“Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.”

E. B. White

"Fro-Joy" (January 1940)
One Man's Meat (1942)

Life , Cars

“Commuter — one who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train
And then rides back to shave again.”

E. B. White

"Commuter," The Lady Is Cold (1929)

Life , Training

“An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.”

E. B. White

Letter to Reginald Allen (5 March 1973)

Life