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title: "23 Life Looked Quotes by 18 authors"
description: "Browse 23 Life Looked quotes by 18 authors. Discover the best Life Looked sayings and thoughts."
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> [When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/when-i-was-a-young-man-near-the-beginning-of-my-life-i-looked-around/)

[Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/)

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> [“Spending my time living a life that looked great on Instagram, even as I rotted from the inside out since it gave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/santino-hassell/spending-my-time-living-a-life-that-looked-great-on-instagram-even-as/)

[Santino Hassell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/santino-hassell/)

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> [But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liane-moriarty/but-maybe-every-life-looked-wonderful-if-all-you-saw-was-the-photo/)

[Liane Moriarty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liane-moriarty/)

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> [I came into this life, looked all around. I saw just what I liked and took what I found.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-cooper/i-came-into-this-life-looked-all-around-i-saw-just-what-i-liked-and/)

[Alice Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-cooper/)

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> [I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-widder/i-just-was-mesmerized-by-all-of-this-life-everywhere-i-looked-and-so/)

[Edith Widder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-widder/)

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> [My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/my-life-looked-good-on-paper-where-in-fact-almost-all-of-it-was-being/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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> [“You can truly value life, when you have looked Death in the eyes and held its hand.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-suggs/you-can-truly-value-life-when-you-have-looked-death-in-the-eyes-and/)

[Lionel Suggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-suggs/)

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> [“The baby looked at me as if to say, You never stop to consider my life. I looked back as if to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jarod-kintz/the-baby-looked-at-me-as-if-to-say-you-never-stop-to-consider-my-life/)

[Jarod Kintz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jarod-kintz/)

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> [“Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/life-if-you-looked-about-you-bore-no-resemblance-not-only-to-the-lies/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-ron-hubbard/you-can-remember-times-when-you-were-a-kid-when-life-looked-too/)

[L. Ron Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-ron-hubbard/)

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> [He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-boswell/he-had-no-settled-plan-of-life-nor-looked-forward-at-all-but-merely/)

[James Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-boswell/)

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> [As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rice/as-if-it-were-our-very-birthright-which-we-could-not-come-to-grasp/)

[Anne Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-rice/)

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> [“She looked like someone he must have known all his life. She looked like a little piece of home - whatever the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-balogh/she-looked-like-someone-he-must-have-known-all-his-life-she-looked/)

[Mary Balogh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-balogh/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b62/mary-balogh-914_finding-the-one_she-looked-like-someone-he-must-have-kno_2331574.png)

> [I changed your life.” She looked down at the peach they shared. “You changed min. I’m glad of it.” And back into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-changed-your-life-she-looked-down-at-the-peach-they-shared-you/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she ws in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/she-was-wishing-that-whatever-stage-of-her-life-she-ws-in-now-could/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

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> [It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-struck-him-that-the-truly-characteristic-thing-about-modern-life-2/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/768/george-orwell-57_achieve_it-struck-him-that-the-truly-characteris_2817642.jpg)

> [“she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/she-was-wishing-that-whatever-stage-of-her-life-she-was-in-now-could/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/050/doris-lessing-501_domesticity_she-was-wishing-that-whatever-stage-of-h_2548637.png)

> [“Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/life-if-you-looked-about-you-bore-no-resemblance-not-only-to-the-lies-2/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d0/george-orwell-57_life_life-if-you-looked-about-you-bore-no-res_1157784.jpg)

> [“...but most of all he liked to listen to stories of real life. He smiled gleefully as he listened to such stories,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/but-most-of-all-he-liked-to-listen-to-stories-of-real-life-he-smiled/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/000/leo-tolstoy-55_asking-questions_but-most-of-all-he-liked-to-listen-to-st_1602413.jpg)

> [“We ate in the dining room alcove looking over the hillside and the silent dark rooftops of my neighbors. The lights of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-lanyon/we-ate-in-the-dining-room-alcove-looking-over-the-hillside-and-the/)

[Josh Lanyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-lanyon/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/129/josh-lanyon-1827_dan_we-ate-in-the-dining-room-alcove-looking_2383997.png)

> [“How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average human being was better off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/how-could-you-tell-how-much-of-it-was-lies-it-might-be-true-that-the/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/and-for-the-first-time-in-his-life-the-possibility-of-death-presented/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/leo-tolstoy-55_clear-vision_and-for-the-first-time-in-his-life-the-p_1950308.jpg)

> [You have to move beyond that vision of the way your life has always looked and begin to picture your life as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-winget/you-have-to-move-beyond-that-vision-of-the-way-your-life-has-always/)

[Larry Winget](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-winget/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bd/larry-winget-7803_begin_you-have-to-move-beyond-that-vision-of-t_2840087.png)

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