Quotes about life page 82
E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…
Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
“We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.”
Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess
Source: The Undomestic Goddess
“All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Evil Thirst
Jennifer Michael Hecht (1965) Philosopher, poet, historian, author
Source: The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn't Working Today
“Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but its always worth trying.”
Pamela Anderson (1967) Canadian-American model, producer, author, former showgirl
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Life connects us, Benjamin, not artifice.”
Chaim Potok (1929–2002) American rabbi
Old Men At Midnight
“The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.”
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: The Days Are Just Packed: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
Jonathan Kellerman (1949) novelist, psychologist
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”
Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins
Source: Beautiful Ruins
Paulo Coelho book Aleph
Variant: Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.
Source: Aleph
Dave Barry (1947) American writer
Source: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657
“Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.”
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) American scientist
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Between the Lines
“Life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
“How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized”
Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient
Source: The English Patient
“life itself is not the miracle.
that pain should be so constant,
that's the miracle”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Variant: Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
Source: Either/Or, Part I
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works
“Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.”
Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces
Source: Fugitive Pieces
“It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
"A Personal Credo" (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944), reprinted in Nathan Lyons, editor, Photographers on Photography (1966), reprinted in Vicki Goldberg, editor, Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present (1988)
“I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.”
Christine Feehan American writer
Source: Water Bound
“Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.”
Thomas Pynchon book Inherent Vice
Source: Inherent Vice
“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
Javier Marías (1951) Spanish writer
"Javier Marías, The Art of Fiction No. 190" https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5680/javier-marias-the-art-of-fiction-no-190-javier-marias, interview with Sarah Fay, The Paris Review 179 (Winter 2006)
“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Jane Green (1968) British writer
Source: Straight Talking
“The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.”
Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“Life, love, boys—it was all about balance.
~Anna Percy”
Zoey Dean book Tall Cool One
Source: Tall Cool One
“The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.”
David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music
“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Stark Munro Letters
Source: The Stark Munro Letters
“The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.”
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary
Gail Tsukiyama (1957) American writer
Source: The Language of Threads
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer
Source: The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Attributed
“The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.”
Paul Arden (1940–2008) writer
Source: Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Lucky Mistake (1689).
Source: The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain
“Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Letters and Social Aims, Social Aims
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.”
Lisa Kleypas book Dreaming of You
Source: Dreaming of You
Karen Chance American writer
Source: Curse the Dawn
Robertson Davies book The Cunning Man
Part 4, section 28. The last lines of the novel.
The Cunning Man (1994)
Context: "Can you tell me the time of the last complete show?"
"You have the wrong number."
"Eh? Isn't this the Odeon?"
I decide to give a Burtonian answer.
"No, this is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night."
John Fowles book The Collector
Source: The Collector