Quotes about life page 57
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Ilchi Lee (1950) South Korean businessman
Source: LifeParticle Meditation: A Practical Guide to Healing and Transformation
“Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Simply Irresistible
“Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: The Sweetest Thing
“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”
Annie Barrows book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.”
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Source: Last Sacrifice
“Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?”
Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
Source: UnSouled
“That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
Source: A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953
“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“Is the life you seek to take worth the one you could one day create? (Savitar)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Dark Side of the Moon
Marc Acito (1966) American novelist, humorist, screenwriter
Source: How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
“People always remember the worst day of their lifes. It becomes a part of them forever.”
James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's
Source: Sundays at Tiffany's
“You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.”
Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries
Source: The Carrie Diaries
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy (1 August 1963), Public Papers of the Presidents 321, p. 620
1963
“Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.”
Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker
Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
Gilda Radner (1946–1989) American comedian
Cells (1988), pg. 23, Popular's Young Discoverer Series, Discovery Channel https://books.google.com.au/books?id=mrTYvoaUlTAC&pg=PA23
“Stop and consider! life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
" Sleep and Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/126/31.html", st. 5 <br class="br">Poems (1817) <br class="br">Source: The Complete Poems
“His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride
Ira Levinson speaking about his father, Chapter 1 Ira, p. 2
Variant: we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life
Source: 2009, The Longest Ride (2013)
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Variant: Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”
Maggie O'Farrell (1972) British writer
Source: After You'd Gone
“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game
Source: Ender's Game
Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange
Variant: The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Variant: I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.”
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
“She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.”
Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) Japanese-born British author
Source: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”
Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.”
Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels
“I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Source: Gone with the Wind
Variant: You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
Source: For One More Day
“Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
Journal entry (March 1926)
“She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
Golden Years
Song lyrics, Station to Station (1976)
Laura Amy Schlitz (1955) children's author
Source: The Hired Girl
“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.”
John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer
Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal (September 8, 1979).
“You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
Derek Parfit book Reasons and Persons
Source: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 281
Context: Is the truth depressing? Some may find it so. But I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my existence was a further fact, I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.
“That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”
Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care
Source: Handle with Care
Leo Tolstoy book Family Happiness
Variant: I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life.
Source: Family Happiness
“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed
Source: And the Mountains Echoed