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Life Quotes (page 631)

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? Hunter S. Thompson
Fulton J. Sheen quote: "Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book."
Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book. Fulton J. Sheen
Leo Buscaglia quote: "Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to..."
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Leo Buscaglia
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers and bystanders, part of a social backdrop against which real, true, important things could happen. Like what? The things Literature was about: Love, sex, morality, friendship, happiness, suffering, betrayal, adultery, good and evil, heroes and villains, guilt and innocence, ambition, power, justice,... Julian Barnes
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and... Arthur Schopenhauer
Ayn Rand quote: "I swear by my life and my love of it that I shall not live for..."
I swear by my life and my love of it that I shall not live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand
The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life. Victor Hugo
Paulo Coelho quote: "If you understand life you need a reality check."
If you understand life you need a reality check. Paulo Coelho
Dante Gabriel Rossetti quote: "Places that are empty of you are empty of life."
Places that are empty of you are empty of life. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
William Golding quote: "If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not..."
If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words. William Golding
O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast") William Butler Yeats
TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my thought but to help you clarify what you yourself think... You are not any more different from me than your right leg is from your left, but what joins us is THE SLEEP OF REASON—WHICH PRODUCES MONSTERS. —Theory of Religion Georges Bataille
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life. Jane Austen
However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, orcomplain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn'tthis be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who willnever even be offered life in the first place? Richard Dawkins
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "Death is a continuation of my life without me..."
Death is a continuation of my life without me... Jean-Paul Sartre

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