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Adams Douglas 1952-

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Answer to the great Question of...Life, the Universe and Everything...is Forty-two.

Amiel Henri Frédéric 1821-1881

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

Anonymous

(car bumper sticker)

Life is uncertain - eat dessert first.

Anonymouss

(graffito found on a London Underground)

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Anonymous

I married my husband for life, not for lunch.

Anonymous

(overheard at a performance of Cleopatra)

How different, how very different from the home life of our own very dear Queen!

Anonymous

(title of BBC Television series)

Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life.

Anouilh Jean 1910-1987

Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy - and that is life.

Armstrong Louis 1901-1971

What we play is life.

Atkinson Brooks 1894-1984

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

Aurelius Marcus 121-180

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

Aurelius Marcus 121-180

Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.

Baker Russell

I've had an unhappy life, thank God.

Barnard Christian

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Barnes Djuna 1892-1982

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle -the heart.

Barnes Julian 1946-

Flaubert's Parrot

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't...
Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.

Barrymore John 1882-1942

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Bennett Alan

„Take a Pew" from Beyond the Fringe

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we are all of us looking for the key. I wonder how many of you have wasted years of your life looking behind the kitchen dressers of this life for the key. Others think they have found the key. They roll back the sardine
tin of life, they reveal the sardines, the riches of life therein, they get them out and enjoy them. You know there is always a little bit in the corner you can't quite get out.

Berenson Bernhard 1865-1919

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

The Bible

New Testament: St John ch.10 v.11

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

The Bible

New Testament: St John ch.14 v.6

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

The Bible

New Testament: St John ch15 v.13

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

The Bible

Old Testament: Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus ch.30 v.24

Envy and wrath shorten the life.

The Bible

Old Testament: Exodus ch.21 v.23

Life for life,
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

The Book of Common Prayer

The Burial of the Dead, First Anthem
In the midst of life we are in death.

Brooke Rupert 1887-1915

„The Hill"

And when we die
All's over that is ours; and life burns on
Through other lovers, other lips.

Brown Lew 1893-1958

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Browning Robert 1812-1889

„In a Balcony"

A man can have but one life and one death.
One heaven, one hell.

Bruyere Jean de la 1645-1696

Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

Bulwer-Lytton Edward 1803-1873

Life would be tolerably agreeable if it were not for its amusements.

Burns Robert 1759-1796

„The Jolly Beggars"

Life is all a VARIORUM,
We regard not how it goes;
Let them cant about DECORUM,
Who have characters to lose.

Burns Robert 1759-1796

O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I.

Butler Samuel 1835-1902

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler Samuel 1835-1902

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Butler Samuel 1835-1902

Notebooks

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Butler Samuel 1835-1902

The Way of All Flesh

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Byron Lord 1788-1824

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Camus Albert 1913-1960

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Christie Dame Agatha 1890-1976

At Bertram's Hotel

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street.

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Clare John 1793-1864

„Child Harold"

My life hath been one chain of contradictions,
Madhouses, prisons, whore-shops.

Cocteau Jean 1889-1963

Opium

Life is a horizontal fall.

Compton-Burnett Dame Ivy 1884-1969

Real life seems to have no plots.

Connolly Cyril 1903-1974

The Unquiet Grave

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.

Conran Shirley 1932-

Superwoman

Life's too short to stuff a mushroom.

Coty René 1882-1962

It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.

Coward Noël 1899-1973

„If Love Were All"

I believe that since my life began
The most I've had is just
A talent to amuse.

Cowley Abraham 1618-1667

„To Dr Scarborough"

Life is an incurable disease.

Davies Robertson 1913-1995

(on a biography of himself)

It's an exellent life of somebody else. But I've really lived inside myself, and she can't get in there.

Davies W.H. 1871-1940

„Leisure"

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

De Gaulle Charles 1890-1970

What we think about death only matters for what death makes us think about life.

Ellis Havelock 1859-1939

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Erikson Erik

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have  integrity enough not to fear death.

Ferber Edna 1887-1968

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.

Forster E.M. 1879-1970

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790

Where the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Freud Sigmund 1856-1939

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

Frost Robert 1874-1963

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

Gay John 1685-1732

„My Own Epitaph"

Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.

Gibran Kahlil 1883-1931

The Prophet „On Children"

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life'slonging for itself.
They came through you but not from you
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not no make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911

The Mikado

Life is a joke that's just begun.

Ginsberg Allen 1926-1997

„Graffiti"

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?
Life would ring the bells of Ectasy and Forever be Itself again.

Ginsberg Louis

Life is ever
Since man was born,
Licking honey
From a thorn.

Goethe Johann von 1749-1832

Faust

All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actul life springs ever green.

Gordon Adam Lindsay 1833-1870

Ye Wearie Wayfarer „Fytte 8"

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.

Hale Nathan 1755-1776

(prior to his execution for spying)

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Hammarskjöld Dag 1905-1961

Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Hardy Thomas 1840-1928

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Hemingway Ernest 1899-1961

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hitchcock Alfred 1899-1980

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Hockney David 1937

Life doesn't have clear edges.

Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr. 1841-1935

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr. 1841-1935

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr. 1841-1935

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Housman A.E. 1859-1936

More Poems

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;
But young men think it is, and we were young.

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