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Life Is Quotes by Yann Martel
- To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
- If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then…
- Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps…
- If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any…
- Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is…
- If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask…
- Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a…
- My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the…
- When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
- The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
- I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I…
More Life Is Quotes
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. — Marcus Aurelius
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo