Life quotes III

Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

O'neill Eugene 1888-1953

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

O'neill Eugene 1888-1953

Marco Millions

Life is perhaps most wisely regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings, and every day is a life in miniature.

Paley Grace

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Palma Brian de

No Art has a shorter life than Political Art.

Parker Dorothy 1893-1967

„Comment"

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.

Pasternak Boris 1890-1960

Doctor Zhivago

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Pasternak Boris1890-1960

,,My Sister Life"

My sister life's in flood today, she's broken her waves over us all in the spring rain.

Péguy Charles 1873-1914

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

Peter Laurence 1910-1990

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

Poe Edgar Allan 1809-1849

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

„An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot"

To help me through this long disease, my life.

Powell Anthony 1905-

One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.

Quarles Francis 1592-1644

Emblems

Thou art my way; I wander, if thou fly;
Thou art my light; if hid, how blind am I!
Thou art my life; if thou withdraw, I die.

Randall Clarence

Every man who has lived his life to the full should, by the time his senior years are reached, have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

Reagan Ronald 1911-

(revealing that he had Alzheimer's disease)

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.

Reynold Gillian

Art is life rearranged until it makes sense.

Rochester John Wilmot, Earl of 1647-1680

„A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe..."

Love ...
That cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown
To make the nauseous draught of life go down.

Rogers Will 1879-1935

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Roosevelt Eleanor 1884-1962

Life has go to be lived - that's all there is to it.
At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that „this, too, shall pass!"

Rossetti Christina 1830-1894

„A Birthday"

Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

Rostand Edmond 1868-1918

La Princesse Lointaine

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

Rowe Nicholas 1674-1718

The Fair Penitent

Death is the privilege of human nature.
And life without it were not worth our taking.

Roy Gabrielle 1909-

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

Rubinstein Artur 1888-1982

Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Runyon Damon 1884-1946

„A Nice Price"

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Ruskin John 1819-1900

Unto this Last

Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death.

Ruskin John 1819-1900

Unto this Last

There is no wealth but life.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

Marriage and Morals

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

Mysticism and Logic

Brief and Powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race
the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

Santayana George 1863-1952

Work and love - these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

Sartre Jean-Paul 1905-1980

The Flies

Human life begins on the far side of despair.

Schopenhauer Arthur 1788-1860

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Schulz Charles M. 1922-

Ly life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Schweitzer Albert 1875-1965

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Scott Sir Walter 1771-1832

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

Seneca c.4 BC-AD 65

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death.

Seneca c.4 BC-AD 65

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

As You Like It

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

All's Well that Ends Well

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Antony and Cleopatra

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Henry IV, Part 1

O gentlemen! the time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Julius Caesar

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

King John

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

King Lear

O reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Macbeth

Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it: he died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed
As ´twere a careless trifle.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Richard I I

Take honour from me, and my life is done.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

The Tempest

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Timon of Athens

Like madness is the glory of this life.

Shaw George Brnard 1856-1950

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822

Adonais

He hath awakened from the dream of life -
´Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings.

Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822

Adonais

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.

Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822

„Sonnet"

Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life.

Sidney Sir Philip 1554-1586

The Defence of Poetry

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life.

Smith Logan Pearsall 1865-1946

Afterthoughts

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Smith Logan Pearsall 1865-1946

Afterthoughts „Myself"

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Smith Logan Pearsall 1865-1946

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Sontag Susan 1933-

Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Spark Muriel 1918-

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Spencer Herbert 1820-1903

Education

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Stevenson Adlai 1900-1965

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

Stoppard Tom 1937-

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Life is a gamble at terrible odds - if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it.

Surtees R.S. 1805-1864

Mr Facey Romford's Hounds

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

Swift Jonathan 1667-1745

May you live all the days of your life.

Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909

„Atalanta in Calydon"

Strength without hands to smite,
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.

Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909

„Atalanta in Calydon"

He weaves, and is clothed with derision;
Sows, and he shall not reap;
His life is a watch or a vision
Between a sleep and a sleep.

The Talmud

Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree, but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.

Taylor Bishop Jeremy 1613-1667

The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying

As our life is very short, so it is very miserable, and therefore it is well it is short.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

Idylls of the King - Dedication

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life,
Before a thousand peering littlenesses.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Time, a maniac scattering dust,
And Life, a Fury slinging flame.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

„The Two Voices"

No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for death.

Thomas Dylan 1914-1953

Under Milk Wood

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862

Walden „Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"

Our life is frittered away by detail ... Simplify, simplify.

Tolstoy Leo 1828-1910

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

Trilling Lionel 1905-1975

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Trudell Dennis

Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.

Twain Mark 1835-1910

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Twain Mark 1835-1910

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Tynan Kenneth 1927-1980

All of life is more or less what the French would call „s'imposer" - to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

Walpole Sir Hugh 1884-1941

Fortitude

´Tisn't life that matters! ´Tis the courage you bring to it.

Wellington Duke of 1769-1852

The Croker Papers

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called „guessing what was at the other side of the hill".

West Mae 1892-1980

in I'm No Angel

„It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men."

Wilde Oscar 1854-1900

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Wodehouse P.G. 1881-1975

My Man Jeeves „Rallying Round Old George"

What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.

Woodcock George 1904-1979

It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woolf Virginia 1882-1941

The Common Reader „Modern Fiction"

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Wordsworth William 1770-1850

„Lines composed ... above Tintern Abbey"

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered, acts
Of kindness and of love.

Yeats William Butler 1865-1939

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Young Edward 1683-1765

The Revenge

Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.

Yourcenar Marguerite 1903-1987

He had come to that time in his life (it varies from every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius, according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

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