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Life Quotes (page 445)

Neil Gaiman quote: "Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of..."
Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I. Neil Gaiman
It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I... Emma Bull
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned Dave Eggers
What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all. Cormac McCarthy
Homer quote: "All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are..."
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life. Homer
Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Thomas Merton
Just for the sake of amusement, ask each passenger to tell you his story, and if you find a single one who hasn’t often cursed his life, who hasn’t told himself he’s the most miserable man in the world, you can throw me overboard head first. Voltaire
Judy Blume quote: "Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life."
Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life. Judy Blume
Juan Ramon Jimenez quote: "Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that..."
Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end. Juan Ramon Jimenez
Haruki Murakami quote: "I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things..."
I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away. Haruki Murakami
There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life. Ram Dass
Oscar Wilde quote: "It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It..."
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. Oscar Wilde
Leo Tolstoy quote: "I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes..."
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. Leo Tolstoy
But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that. Edna Ferber
Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that. David McCullough

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