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Life Quotes (page 521)

We get paid to hang out in this beautiful court! Four puppets on a string, just like those two up there (pointing to the two hanging puppets), waiting for someone to jerk them into life and make them talk. Luigi Pirandello
Cheryl Strayed quote: "Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding"
Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding Cheryl Strayed
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning. Simone de Beauvoir
If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs. Roger Zelazny
Quentin Crisp quote: "I learned very early in life that I was always going to need..."
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me. Quentin Crisp
Henry Miller quote: "That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them?..."
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them? that is the tragedy of life. Henry Miller
Now, in a shift of light, the shadows of birds are more pronounced on the gallery’s white wall. The shadow of each bird is speaking to me. Each shadow doubles the velocity, ferocity of forms. The shadow, my shadow now merges with theirs. Descension. Ascension. The velocity of wings creates the whisper to awaken…. I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to speak and comprehend words of wounding without... Terry Tempest Williams
Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it. Thomas Mann
As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organic life, since no living thing can exist without it, so that every work of art, including tragedy, expresses the joy of existence. Boris Pasternak
Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. Ayn Rand
Audrey Hepburn quote: "And...I think that's what life is all about, actually,about..."
And...I think that's what life is all about, actually,about children and flowers. Audrey Hepburn
Having lived among the owning classes, he knew the utter futility of expecting any solution of the wage-squabble. There was no solution, short of death. The only thing was not to care, not to care about the wages. Yet, if you were poor and wretched, you had to care. Anyhow, it was becoming the only thing they did care about. The care about money was like a great cancer, eating away the individuals of all classes. He refused to care about money. And what then? What did life offer apart from... David Herbert Lawrence
David Lynch quote: "I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t..."
I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. David Lynch
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but..."
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting. L. M. Montgomery
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind. Christopher Hitchens

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