...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...
– Amelia Barr
...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
– Voltaire
...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."
– Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
?Tis those who reverence the old That are the men versed in the Faith; Worthy of praise while in this life, And happy in the life to come.
– Buddhist
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
– Carl Sandburg
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
– Erica Jong
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
– Fred Allen
A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.
– Charles Lindberg
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
– Gustave Flaubert
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
– Reverend Edward A. Malloy
A completely secure life can be found only outside the life!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
– Woody Allen, Without Feathers
A different language is a different vision of life.
– Federico Fellini
A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party
– Les Brown
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.
– Eugene E. Brussell
A gentle breeze, a rustle of leaves, it's times like this life pleases with ease.
– Aaron J. Munzer
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
– John Milton
A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.
– Lawrence Downs
A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.
– Francis Bacon
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
– Jawaherlal Nehru
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
– Walter Gagehot
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
– Albert Schweitzer
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
– Robertson Davies
