Life Quote by Salman Rushdie

“As he put in his studs he realized that he was enjoying life as he would probably never enjoy it again. Everything was hallowed…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.”

— Anne Carson

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took…

— James Joyce

“This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of…

— Sue Miller

“As time passed and he found his rhythm, he began to feel more certain. England opened up beneath his feet, and the feeling of…

— Rachel Joyce

“He felt a tug of sadness that someone who had seemed so shiningly alive within the small confines of a university community should have…

— Douglas Adams

“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient…

— Mary-Rose MacColl

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin

“Am struck by paradoxical thought that youth is by no means the happiest time of life, but that most of the rest of life…

— E.M. Delafield

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“He couldn't be more than twenty-five, but he obviously lived enough to have things to regret. He looked like he'd taken a long fall…

— Jonathan Lethem

“As time passed and he found his rhythm, he began to feel more certain. England opened beneath his feet, and the feeling of freedom,…

— Rachel Joyce