Life Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.”

— Anonymous

“Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies.”

— Jennifer Worth

“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order.”

— Eudora Welty

“Life is not a series of events charged with elements of contrast, contradiction, or surprise. It is a deep, coherent, and unfaltering process.”

— Percy C. Ainsworth

“In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“The moments of life are ephemeral and unpredictable. We must capture the best ones and keep them safe in our hearts.”

— Susan Wiggs

“We do not know the details in a day. How can we foretell the happenings in distant time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“This, perhaps, is how lives are measured, a series of abandonments that we hope beyond reason will eventually be reconciled.”

— Anthony Doerr

“The merging of two lives, the threshold of possibility: it's an energy unlike anything else.”

— Crystal Cestari

“We often delay and sometimes even abandon the commencement of things entirely, primary because of the foreseeable end we have in mind.”

— David Benedict Zumbo

“When two things have frequently existed in close temporal contiguity, either comes in time to cause the other.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Life is just a short period of time in which we are alive.”

— Philip Roth