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Life Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- Loneliness is a strange gift.
- Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
- Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his…
- Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.
- An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.
- Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides…
- Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
- By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
- A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.…
- In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
- It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if…
- Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.
- I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to…
- Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
- After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
- Writing is both mask and unveiling.
- I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into…
- You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's…
- The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal…
- Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.
- Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
- But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.
- A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all…
- There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support…
- As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not…
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