Life Quotes

“When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all like, "What?!"”

“To feel life, to have the consciousness of it, as a mother feels the turning of her babe in the womb.”

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round.”

“One day... I shall come into a conscious sense of life, thrilling at its contact, quivering at the touch of its breath. I shall feel it deep in the nerve centers of my bones.... I shall feel it like the sting of bees.”

“Days upon days will be cast into the incinerator. I shall destroy the unmeaning and the unmeant.... I shall have real issues to confront. There shall be happenings in my days. Things shall come to pass. There shall be conflicts and decisions. There shall be loves and hates and burnings.”

“Sliding down the banister of life is so much more fun than ambling down the steps.”

“The banister of life is full of splinters, and he slideth down it with rapidity.”

“Behold he glideth down the banister of life and findeth it strewn with the splinters of torture.”

“Sliding down the banister of life, man is stuck with the splinters of disappointment. When he reaches the bottom he is jabbed against the post of destruction.”

“As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point your way.”

“I, the atom of creation, have arrived... I am life. I impinge you. I fall upon you with great weights. I eviscerate you. I tap your arteries and drain you. I am the insistent one. You cannot escape me. I unsettle you. I make you moan over the nights and the days. I bring you weeping, wringing your hands, crying out to the pale stars, promising an atoning.”

“You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.”