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Life Quotes (page 481)

Isabel Allende quote: "We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that..."
We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test. Isabel Allende
Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were. John Bradshaw
Ayn Rand quote: "My life is the highest of values, too high to give up without..."
My life is the highest of values, too high to give up without a fight. Ayn Rand
To save myself, I would try to summon up a vision of Mattie, but I could not see her. I could not imagine her. Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone. And then I would wake up and be in awe to see the daylight coming and my old familiar workaday life taking shape again in the dear world. Coherence and clarity returned. I could imagine myself again. I could imagine Mattie Chatham. I could imagine Port William. Wendell Berry
If I tell you that Mrs. Robbins had bad teeth and looked like a horse, you will laugh at me as a clich-monger; yet it is the truth. I can do nothing with the teeth; but let me tell you that she looked like a French horse, a dark, Mediterranean, market-type horse that has all its life begrudged to the poor the adhesive-tape on a torn five-franc note - that has tiptoed (to save its shoes) for centuries along that razor-edge where Greed and Caution meet. Randall Jarrell
Saul Bellow quote: "Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it..."
Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential. Saul Bellow
Virginia Woolf quote: "Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who..."
Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one! Virginia Woolf
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks. Bill Bryson
Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself. Terry Prachett
I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but theincomprehensible nature of this our life - for their inspection. Some people goto priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek amongphrases and fragments something unbroken - I to whom there is no beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, sounspeakably lonely. Virginia Woolf
Edith Hamilton quote: "He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone..."
He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life. Edith Hamilton
George Orwell quote: "Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who..."
Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. George Orwell
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Love if it existed was something separate: another life."
Love if it existed was something separate: another life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child;... Herman Hesse
Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around. J. K. Rowling

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