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Life Quotes (page 834)

Philip Roth quote: "He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it..."
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. Philip Roth
Is there any of the usual social occasions which it is not difficult to avoid? But if you decide that you cannot very well ignore your worldly obligations, and that you will therefore carry them out properly, the demands on your time will multiply, bringing physical hardship and mental tension; in the end, you will spend your whole life pointlessly entangled in petty obligations. Yoshida Kenko
Hubert H. Humphrey quote: "In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left..."
In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts Hubert H. Humphrey
John Burroughs quote: "If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I..."
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.... John Burroughs
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. Thomas Wolfe
In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong. Sarah Orne Jewett
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau
In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree. (pg. 123, The Body and the Earth) Wendell Berry
Samuel Beckett quote: "CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was..."
CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that. Samuel Beckett
You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn’t know you could steal your own life. And I didn’t know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn’t mine. It never has been. Cormac McCarthy
Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not ever....It will be far cheaper, and entail no risk to human life, to explore space with robots. The technology is already well along....the real thrill will be in learning in detail what is out there...It is an especially dangerous delusion if we see emigration into space as a solution to be taken when we have used up this planet....Earth, by the... E. O. Wilson
Christopher Hitchens quote: "In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private..."
In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. Christopher Hitchens
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rick Warren quote: "Knowing your purpose focuses your life."
Knowing your purpose focuses your life. Rick Warren
Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world. Here, there was the taint of of deepest sin in... Nathaniel Hawthorne

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