This Life Quotes

952 This Life quotes by 706 unique authors

I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?) — Pablo Neruda
What do I believe that I deserve in this life? — Elizabeth Gilbert
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the… — Louisa May Alcott
This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am. — James Joyce
This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower. — Anton Chekhov
There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally. — Michel de Montaigne
To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually… — Miguel de Cervantes
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.… — Reinhold Niebuhr
and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did. — Raymond Carver
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a… — Fred Rogers
Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of… — Seraphim Rose
This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with,… — William Blake
If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a… — William James
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content… — Lin Yutang
Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered… — Robert Fulghum
Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at… — Sarah Dessen
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery… — Franz Wright
I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that… — Scarlett Thomas
This life is but the childhood of our immortality. — Denis Johnson
That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror… — Sherman Alexie
No matter what happens I'll keep on moving. Until this life runs out of me I'll keep on walking (Allen Walker) — Katsura Hoshino
Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. — Matt Groening
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured. — Samuel Beckett
. . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether… — Ted Dekker

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