Life Quotes

“Encyclopædiac folios Have I searched, knowledge to find, Till my eyes became half-blind, And a wart grew on my nose. Still, my quest was not in vain; The goal I reached, of all my strife: I can tell in four lines plain, All that knowledge speaks of life. Chance has woven hopeless fate: Nothing alters, naught is new: Joy and pain and love and hate In a vain circle 'round pursue.”

“Things happened!”

“Life, whether before the grave or afterwards, is like love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”

“Life. — Enjoy whatever flowers come with the manure.”

“If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how.”

“Sacrifice is stamped upon every created thing.”

“To exist in the fleet joy of becoming, to be a channel for life as it flashes by in its gaiety and courage, cool water glittering in the sunlight — in a world of sloth, anxiety, and aggression.”

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book and remembering — because you can't take it all in at once.”

“Just when I had got "life" all nicely arranged so I could be reasonably comfortable in it, powie! Something else came in and broke it up.”

“All life flows in a sweeping deliberate curve — in the inevitable arc of tragedy.”