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Life is one long struggle in the dark. — Lucretius · 55 BCAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. — Lucretius · 55 BCThe more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. — Alan Watts · 1982Life can be wonderful as well as terrible, and we shall increasingly have the power to make life good. Since human history may be only just beginning, we can expect that future humans, or supra-humans, may achieve some great goods that we cannot now even imagine. In Nietzsche’s words, there has never been such a new dawn and clear horizon, and such an open sea. — Derek Parfit · 2017Drama3 quotes
You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers. — Mason Sr. · 2014It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004Drama (film)3 quotes
You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers. — Mason Sr. · 2014It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004Autobiography and memoir2 quotes
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. — Bob Dylan · 2004The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. — Vladimir Nabokov · 1951Didactic poem2 quotes
Life is one long struggle in the dark. — Lucretius · 55 BCAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. — Lucretius · 55 BCRomantic drama2 quotes
It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004Romantic drama (film)2 quotes
It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004Scientific literature2 quotes
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. — Richard Dawkins · 1986Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. — James Jeans · 1930Action1 quote
Life, uh, finds a way. — Malcolm · 1993Action (film)1 quote
Life, uh, finds a way. — Malcolm · 1993Adventure novel1 quote
Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset. — H. Rider Haggard · 1885Coming of age1 quote
You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers. — Mason Sr. · 2014Coming of age (film)1 quote
You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers. — Mason Sr. · 2014Historical literature1 quote
The present life of man, O king, seems to me, in comparison of that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your commanders and ministers, and a good fire in the midst, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail ahead; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry storm; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, into the dark winter from which he had emerged. So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. — Venerable Bede · 731Psychological literature1 quote
The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive. — Carl Jung · 1944Religious literature1 quote
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. — Alan Watts · 1982Rock music1 quote
Oh yeah, life goes on long after the thrill of livin' is gone. — John Mellencamp · 1982Science fiction1 quote
Life, uh, finds a way. — Malcolm · 1993Science fiction (film)1 quote
Life, uh, finds a way. — Malcolm · 1993Tragedy1 quote
One lives but once in this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Tragedy (play)1 quote
One lives but once in this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774