Life quotes II

Hubbard Elbert 1859-1915

Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Huxley Aldous 1894-1963

At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.

Huxley Aldous 1894-1963

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

Itamini Juzo

If you imagine life as a book, the last page should be the best, not the blackest.

James William 1842-1910

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Jeans Sir James 1877-1946

The Mysterious Universe

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

Jerome Jerome K.1859-1927

They and I

I want a house that has got over all its troubles;
I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing
up a young and inexperienced house.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Bosweel - Life

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Rasselas

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Joyce James 1882-1941

Ulysses

But it's no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life.

Kavanagh Patrick 1905-1967

„The Great Hunger"

That was how his life happened.
No mad hooves galloping in the sky,
But the weak, washy way of true tragedy -
A sick horse nosing around the meadow for
a clean place to die.

Keats John 1795-1821

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

Keats John 1795-1821

„Sleep and Poetry"

Stop and consider! Life is but a day;
A fargile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree's summit;

Kennedy John F. 1917-1963

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.

Kettering Charles F. 1876-1958

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Kierkegaard Sören 1813-1855

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936

For All We Have and Are
There is but one task for all -
For each one life to give.
What stands if freedom fall?
Who dies if England live?

Korzybski Alfred 1879-1950

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

La Mance Thomas

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Laforgue Jules 1860-1887

Ah! que la vie est quotidienne.
Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Larkin Philip 1922-1985

„Dockery & Son"

Life is first boredom, then fear.
Whether or not we use it, it goes,
And leaves what something hidden
from us chose,
And age, and then the only end of age.

Lawrence D.H. 1885-1930

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Lawrence D.H. 1885-1930

Phoenix

In life ... no new thing has ever arisen, or can arise, save out of the impulse of the male upon the female, the female upon the male. The interaction of the male and female spirit begot the wheel, the plough, and the first utterance that was made on the face of the earth.

Leacock Stephen 1869-1944

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.

Lear Edward 1812-1888

„The Quangle-Wangle's Hat"

„But the longer I live on this Crumpetty Tree
The plainer than ever it seems to me
That very few people come this way
And that life on the whole is far from gay!"
Said the Quangle-Wangle Quee.

Lebowitz Fran 1946-

Metropolitan Life

Life is something to do when you can't sleep.

Lee Laurie 1914-1997

Cider with Rosie

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

Lehrer Tom 1928-

„We Will All Go Together When We Go"

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Lennon John and McCartney Paul 1940-1980 and 1942-

„In my Life"

There are places I'll remember all my life, though some have changed, some forever, not for better, some have gone and some remain.

Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519

Life well spent is long.

Levin Bernard 1928-

The Pendulum Years

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it, so that fanaticism and intolerance reach their most intense forms just before tolerance and mutual acceptance come to be the natural order of things.

Lewis Sir George Cornewall 1806-1863

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Lindbergh Anne Morrow 1906-

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Lodge David 1935-

The British Museum is Falling Down

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882

„A Psalm of Life"

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Lucretius 99-55 BC

De Rurum Natura

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Mackay Charles 1814-1889

There is no such thing as death,
In nature, nothing dies:
From each sad moment of decay
Some forms of life arise.

Maclennan Hugh 1907-1990

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

MacNeice Louis 1907-1963

„Thalassa"

By a high star our course is set,
Our end is Life. Put out to sea.

Mann Thomas 1875-1955

The Magic Mountain

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely in the category of objective events, and that's that.

Masefield John 1878-1967

„C.L.M."

In the dark womb where I began
My mother's life made me a man.
Through all the months of human birth
Her beauty fed my common earth.
I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir,
But through the death of some of her.

Miles Sarah

Isn't it amazing that there's no copyright on your own life?

Miller Henry 1891-1980

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Milman Henry Hart 1791-1868

The Belvedere Apollo

And the cold marble leapt to life a god.

Milton John 1608-1674

„Lycidas"

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorrèd shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st
Live well, how long or short permit to heaven.

Milton John 1608-1674

Samson Agonistes

To live a life half dead, a living death.

Mitchell Joni 1945-

„Both Sides Now"

I've looked at life from both sides now,
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall;
I really don't know life at all.

Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method and discipline.

Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592

Essays

Life is a dream; when we sleep we are awake, and when awake we sleep.

Mordaunt Thomas Osbert 1730-1809

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife,
Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

Morley Christopher 1890-1957

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley Christopher 1890-1957

There are three ingredients in the good life; learning, earning and yearning.

Morley Christopher 1890-1957

Thunder on the Left

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morris Desmond 1928-

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Morris William 1834-1896

News from Nowhere

The reward of labour is life.

Motley John Lothrop 1814-1877

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

Nabokov Vladimir 1899-1977

Pale Fire

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Newman John Henry, Cardinal 1801-1890

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Newman John Henry, Cardinal 1801-1890

Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day

May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the eveningcomes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may he give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900

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