LIFE QUOTES AND OTHER ODDS AND ENDS

LIFE ITSELF IS A QUOTATION

-JORGE LUIS BORGES

 

“Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.”  Gail Caldwell

 

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
Mel Brooks

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.” imsocarly

Chuck Palahniuk quotes (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and Novelist. b.1961)

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.  –  Alice Walker

Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide – that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life – are alike forbidden.  –  Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.  –  Oscar Wilde

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. – William Shakespeare

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.  –  William Butler Yeats

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
William Lyon Phelps

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

 

 

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