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Life Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
- Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
- Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile…
- All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
- As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.
- The writer's life seethes within but not without.
- I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're…
- The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that…
- Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
- It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.
- The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the…
- Life is, of course, terrible.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle