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112 quotes

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Topic·Life✕clear

Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH...

Big Sur · 1962

★ 1.1

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

1862

★ 1.3

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 1.3

Scientific literature

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

1930

★ 1.8

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at it while it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

Life of Pi (novel) · 2001

★ 1.8

Were the happinesse of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

Sir Thomas Browne

1658

★ 1.9

Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly: ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.

Gustave Flaubert

1864

★ 1.9

Personal journal

To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

Samuel Butler · 1902

★ 1.9

Novel · Magazine

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

North American Review · 1903

★ 1.9

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

1939

★ 1.9

Scientific literature

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

1989

★ 1.9

I'm a little bit, you know, seat of my pants, I try to be alert and available... For life to happen to you. We're living this life, we’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it... But if you’re available, then life gets huge... You're really living it.

2014

★ 1.9

Play · History (play)

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

The Life and Death of King John · 1616

★ 1.9

Life is an incurable disease.

1656

★ 1.9

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and a little to be enjoyed.

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale · 1759

★ 1.9

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have liv'd light in the spring, To have lov'd, to have thought, to have done.

Empedocles on Etna · 1852

★ 1.9

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1881

★ 1.9

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

1885

★ 1.9

Psychological literature

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

1944

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

Life is a game... And you keep score with dollars.

1978

★ 1.9

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