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Life Quotes (page 336)

W. Somerset Maugham quote: "The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it..."
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. W. Somerset Maugham
Hugh MacLennan quote: "Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything"
Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything Hugh MacLennan
William Wordsworth quote: "A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its..."
A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death? William Wordsworth
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves. James Joyce
Joan D. Vinge quote: "There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your..."
There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it. Joan D. Vinge
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore. Kurt Vonnegut
I didn't know why something that started off feeling so good had to wind up feeling so bad. Love was a big word and it covered a lot of territory. You could spend your whole life chasing after it and wind up with nothing, be an old bitter guy with long nose hair and ear hair and no teeth, hanging out in bars, looking for somebody your age, but the chances of success went down then. After a while you got too many strikes against you. Larry Brown
Fred Allen quote: "An actor’s success has the life expectancy of a small boy..."
An actor’s success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. Fred Allen
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how". Viktor E. Frankl
Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness. Erik Erikson
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism. Primo Levi
Most men will not swim before they are able to.” Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they wont think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what’s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown. Herman Hesse
Alexander Dumas quote: "God orders a man to do all he can to save his life."
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life. Alexander Dumas
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies
Henry Miller quote: "The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human."
The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human. Henry Miller

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