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Life Is Quotes (page 150)

The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them. George Orwell
Herman Wouk quote: "This life is slow suicide, unless you read."
This life is slow suicide, unless you read. Herman Wouk
Louisa May Alcott quote: "If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever..."
If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through i? Louisa May Alcott
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge. Roger Ebert
And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I saw here. And not even fear: much worse. Absolute dread. Paralyzing dread so great as to produce apathy. Philip K. Dick
Khalil Gibran quote: "Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you..."
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. Khalil Gibran
The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'. Soren Kierkegaard
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die...."
Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. Gustave Flaubert
The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another. -- Snow pg 119 Orhan Pamuk
Herman Melville quote: "I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a..."
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. Herman Melville
Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark. Dean Koontz
One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves. Meg Cabot
So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man. Jorge Luis Borges
Eudora Welty quote: "Human life is fiction's only theme."
Human life is fiction's only theme. Eudora Welty

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