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Life Quotes by John Banville
- It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
- Life is tragic but it's equally comic.
- You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel…
- All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie.…
- What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had…
- Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
- All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time,…
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