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Life Quotes (page 301)

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul? though you still Sauls around on the side. Ralph Ellison
Cyril Connolly quote: "The artist secretes nostalgia around life."
The artist secretes nostalgia around life. Cyril Connolly
William Shakespeare quote: "I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate..."
I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely. William Shakespeare
He who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life. Jack London
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become. Jeanette Winterson
It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me. Ivo Andric
In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility: he was strong and she was weak. Milan Kundera
Now for St. Francis nothing was ever in the background. We might say that his mind had no background, except perhaps that divine darkness out of which the divine love had called up every colored creature one by one. He saw everything as dramatic, distinct from its setting, not all of a piece like a picture but in action like a play. A bird went by him like an arrow; something with a story and a purpose, though it was a purpose of life and not a purpose of death. A bush could stop him like a... Gilbert K. Chesterton
It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. Fulton J. Sheen
Sydney Smith quote: "A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better..."
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. Sydney Smith
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a..."
I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in the world. W. Somerset Maugham
Nicolas Chamfort quote: "In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two..."
In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man. Nicolas Chamfort
I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night. Steve Martin
A traveller! I love his title. A traveler is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from–toward; it is the history of every one of us. Henry David Thoreau
Philip Larkin quote: "One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know..."
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves. Philip Larkin

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