This Life Quotes

952 This Life quotes by 706 unique authors

This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be… — Moderata Fonte
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the… — Leo Tolstoy
Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. — Ellen Hopkins
Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes… — Rene Descartes
Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything… — Don DeLillo
Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those… — Frederick Buechner
Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up… — John Cage
This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls… — Jay-Z
Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make… — Sarah Dessen
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering,… — George Eliot
I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow,… — AndrÃ© Aciman
If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it? — Ayn Rand
I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles. — Laini Taylor
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant. — Ann Patchett
And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is… — Alexandre Dumas
When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go… — Veronica Roth
I'm writing this down, because it is going to be hard for me to say it. Because this is probably our last time just us.… — Ann Brashares
If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it. — Christopher McCandless
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you… — Jeanette Winterson
In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will… — Richard Kadrey
My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good… — Hayao Miyazaki
If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life.… — Richard Dawkins
This life is slow suicide, unless you read. — Herman Wouk

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