quotations about life
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
ROGER ZELAZNY
Blood of Amber
When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
HENRIK IBSEN
When We Dead Awaken
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTEN
Mansfield Park
Life is a cycle of both suffering and pleasure. One doesn't exist without the other.
VENERABLE POMNYUN
"How Can We Create A Happy Life For Ourselves And A More Just Society?", Huffington Post, August 15, 2016
Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.
TIMOTHY LEARY
Your Brain Is God
So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
"Broken Music"
Life is a garden forever in flower.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Entre-Acte Reveries"
Life -- and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison -- is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
NEIL GAIMAN
Death Talks About Life
But life is not the wax or wick of the candle, it is the burning. It is not the complex nitrates and the carbon compounds in which it sits but their combustion.
BAKER BROWNELL
The New Universe