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Life Quotes by Philip Pullman
- And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was…
- She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying,…
- She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
- Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same
- Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I…
- I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good…
- We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all…
- We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
- Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of…
- All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
- He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life…
- She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her…
- Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without…
- To get the best out of life here ...Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in…
- Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he…
- And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
- There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion,…
- I’m just trying to wake up - I’m so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first.…
- Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and…
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