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Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization.When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts.

—Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Alcohol is a very necessaryarticle† It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

—Shaw, George Bernard

The Old Testament makes woman a mere after-thought in creation; the author of evil; cursed in her maternity; a subject in marriage; and all female life, animal and human, unclean.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

Then old age and experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death, and make him understand, After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong. Huddled in dirt, the reasoning engine lies, Who was so proud, so witty, and so wise.

—Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of

Catsandmonkeysömonkeysand catsöall humanlifeis there!

—James, Henry

   Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

   I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

My religion and myartöthey are all my life.

—John, Gwen

We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

—Book of Common Prayer

She felt that those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

   It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.

—Pierce, C(harles) S(aunders)

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

—McCarthy,Joseph R(aymond)

The greatest of all the contributions of the Americanway of life to the salvation of humanity.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

   When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter.When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

—Amis, Martin Louis

In the springtime of America's cultural life, its itinerant folk artiststook totheroad to record the life and times of a people.Perhaps never again will we have an artistic record created in such direct and unassuming terms.

—Rockefeller,Winthrop

Ich kenn es wohl, dein Missgeschick: Verfehltes Leben, verfehlte Liebe! I know it well, your mishap: A missed life, a missed love!

—Heine, Heinrich

The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the word; From heaven he came and sought her To be his holy bride, With his own blood he bought her. And for her life he died.

—Stone, Samuel John

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell;The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost;The holy Catholick Church;The Communion of Saints;The Forgiveness of sins;The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

—Book of Common Prayer

The belief that we somehow moved on to something elseöwhether still recognisably ourselves, or quite thoroughly changedömight be a tribute to our evolutionary tenacityand our animal thirst for life, but not to our wisdom.

—Banks, Iain Menzies

Anythin'for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

Two such wonderful phrasesö'I understand perfectly' and 'That is a lie'öa pre¤  cis of life, aren't they?

—Friel, Brian

L'architecture est le miroir me"  me de la vie. Il n'est que de jeter les yeux sur des e¤  difices pour sentir la pre¤  sence du passe¤  , l'esprit d'un lieu; ils sont le reflet de la socie¤  te¤  . Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

—Pei, I(eoh) M(ing)

Stevenson's convictions were sometimes too complex for the binary political arena to which he devoted his life.

—Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher Charles Herbert

Art is onlya means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant† In becoming an end it defeats itself.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

—Jordan,June

Atfifteenlifehadtaught meundeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

—Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson

Why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.

—Dryden,John

On ne peut juger de la beaute¤   de la vie que par celle de la mort. One can only judge the beauty of life through death.

—Lautre¤  amont, Comte de properly Isidore Ducasse

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to a greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

—Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

—Nathan, GeorgeJean

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake: Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; But every lady would be Queen for life.

—Pope, Alexander

The fights are the best part of married life. The rest is merely so-so.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

We the Peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, whichtwice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to 873 mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignityand worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, and for these ends, to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one anotherasgood neighbours, and tounite our strengthto maintain international peace and security, and to ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.

—United Nations Charter

Il vaut mieux re"  ver sa vie que la vivre, encore que la vivre ce soit encore la re"  ver. It's better to dream your life than to live it, and even though you live it, you will still dream it.

—Proust, Marcel

The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command.

—Wordsworth,William

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

—Rossetti, Christina Georgina

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!'

—Powys,John Cowper

He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realize,' he said 'The bitterness of life!'

—Dodgson

When you've reached myage, and your friends are beginning to worry about you, blind dates are a way of life.

—Epstein,JuliusJ

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

—Arnold, Matthew

Edward Hopper is the great painter of American hell in the 20th century, the limner-laureate of the beauty, poignance, eternityand bone-ache disquietude of life.

—Allen, Henry Southworth

:The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. : It ends with Revelations.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.

—Williams,William Carlos

Books are where things are explained to you; life is wherethings aren't† Booksmake sense of life.The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.

—Barnes,Julian Patrick

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.

—Lowell, Amy

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

—Franklin, Benjamin

No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.

—Washington, BookerTaliaferro

And the L God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

Concerning the gods I am not in a position to know either that they are or that they are not, or what theyare like in appearance; for there are many things that are preventing knowledge, the obscurity of the matter and the brevity of human life.

—Protagoras

Conscience de¤  chire¤  e entra|"ne vie de¤  cousue. A torn conscience brings about a disconnected life.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

To bring the dead to life Is no great magic. Feware wholly dead: Blow on a dead man's embers And a live flame will start.

—Graves, Robert von Ranke

For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes. For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life. For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him. For he is of the tribe of Tiger.

—Smart, Christopher

We took away their countryand their means of support, broke up their mode of living, their habits of life, introduced disease and decayamong them and it was for this and against this they made war.Could anyone expect less?

—Sheridan, Philip Henry

All thebusiness of war, and indeedall thebusiness of life, isto endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I call 'guessing what was at the other side of the hill'.

—Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

   I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

—Sandburg, Carl

   To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property. So it is through property that we shall strike the enemy† Be militant each in your own way† I incite this meeting to rebellion.

—Pankhurst, Emmeline ne¤  e  Goulden

So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life.

—Tennyson

The most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain self-pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby†he has slowlyaccumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.

—Huxley,T(homas) H(enry)

'Youarefettered,'said Scrooge, trembling.'Tell mewhy?' 'I wear the chain I forged in life,'replied the Ghost.'I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.'

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favour.

—Frost, Robert Lee

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

—Adams, Henry Brooks

   Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

—Miller, Arthur

Icall heavenand earthtorecord thisdayagainst you, that Ihaveset before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Here, of all her cities, throbbed the true lifeöthe true power and spirit of America; gigantic, crude with the crudityof youth, disdaining rivalry; saneand healthyand vigorous; brutal in its ambition, arrogant in the new- found knowledge of its giant strength, prodigal of its wealth, infinite in its desires.

—Norris, Frank Benjamin Franklin

How right it seemed that he should reach the span Of comfortable years allowed to man! Splendid to eat and sleep and choose a wife, Safe with his wound, a citizen of life. He hobbled blithely through the garden gate, And thought: 'Thank God they had to amputate!'

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain

In1945 we did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations.Weset downonpaper the only principles that will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.

—Truman, Harry S

Coldöcold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

—Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams

Love'slikethemeaslesöalltheworsewhenitcomeslate in life.

—Jerrold, Douglas William

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.

—Sidney, Sir Philip

A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

—Wilson

   There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.

—Kierkegaard, So«  ren Aabye

   The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor istoil that never finishes, toil that hastobe begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

—McCarthy,Joseph R(aymond)

Many continentals think life is a game, the English think cricket is a game.

—Mikes, George

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body.Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

—Gray,Thomas

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

—Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

—Mamet, David Alan

I have observed, in the course of a dishonest life, that when a rogue is outlining a treacherous plan, he works harder to convince himself than to move his hearers.

—Fraser, George MacDonald

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

—Kurosawa, Akira

For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

My Minister's room is like a padded cell, and in certain ways I am like a person who is suddenly certified a lunatic and put safely into this great, vast room, cut off from real life.Of course they don't behave quite like nurses, because the Civil Service is profoundly deferentialö'Yes, Minister! No, Minister! If you wish it, Minister!'

—Crossman, Richard Howard Stafford

Our Ford†had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

After the funeral, my father struggled through half a page, and it might as well have been Hottentott. 'And what dun they gi'e thee for that, lad?' 'Fifty pounds, father.' 'Fifty pounds!' He was dumbfounded, and looked at mewith shrewd eyes,asif I were a swindler.'Fifty pounds! An'tha's niver done a day's hard work in thy life.'

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

We cannot have heroes to dine with us. There are none. And were those heroes to be had, we should not like them†the persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, becausetheyare so good.

—Trollope, Anthony

   The golden Hours, on angel wings, Flew o'er me and my Dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.

—Burns, Robert

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

—Spenser, Edmund

Yet never can he die, but dying lives, And doth himself with sorrow new sustain, That death and life attonce unto him gives, And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

—Spenser, Edmund

DerTod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. DenTod erlebt man nicht. Death isnot an event in life: we do not liveto experience death.

—Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann

Death to life is crown or shame.

—Milton,John

During my lifetime I have dedicated my life to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideals of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hopeto live for, and toseerealized.But My Lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

—Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

—Hardy, Godfrey Harold

He has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

—Birkenhead, F(rederick) E(dwin) Smith, 1st Earl of

Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.

—Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl

In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.

—Smith, Adam

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.

—Commoner, Barry

   I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

—Reno,Janet

We have discovered the secret of life! SeeWatson 890:96.

—Crick, Francis Harry Compton

She stands an instant in the sun Athwart her harsh land's red and greenö Hands of a serf, and warrior eyes Of some flame-sceptred Irish queen. † As if she does not care that life Has reft the jewels from her hairö But grieves that menial needs and base Were those that left her palace bare.

—Hyde, Robin pseudonym of IrisGuiver Wilkinson

O rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

—Blake,William

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

—Gibbon, Edward

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing- fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three-quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

   I eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life. They do taste kinda funny, but it keeps 'em on the knife.

—Nash, (Frederic) Ogden

It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That's when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.

—Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams

He who binds to himself a Joy Doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the Joy as it flies Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

—Blake,William

: Do you believe in the life to come? : Mine was always that.

—Beckett, Samuel

Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

—Jarrell, Randall

   He hath awakened from the dream of lifeö 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

—Dryden,John

Youmust dressaccording toyourage, yourpursuits, your object in life.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, council, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windyTroy. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

—Tennyson

Cada esta c° a‹  o da vida e¤   uma edi c° a‹  o, que corrige a anterior, e que sera¤   corrigida tambe¤  m, ate¤   a edi c° a‹  o definitiva, que o editor da¤   de gra c° a aos vermes. Each stage in life is an edition that supersedes the previous one and will also be superseded until the definitive edition: the one that the editor gives to the worms.

—Machado de Assis,Joaquim Maria

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

—Dryden,John

If his thinking has been sound, then this world is at the end of its tether. The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded.

—Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

La Poe¤  sie est l'expression, par le langage humain ramene¤  e a'   son rythme essentiel, du sens myste¤  rieux des aspects de l'existence; elle doue ainsi d'authenticite¤ notre se¤  jour et constitue la seule ta"  che spirituelle. Poetry is an expression, through human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysteriousness of existence; it endows our life with authenticity and constitutes our only spiritual task.

—Mallarme¤  , Ste¤  phane

Fretting grief the enemy of life.

—Spenser, Edmund

English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentilityand I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.

—Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph)

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

I know the law since I have spent my entire life in its flagrant disregard.

—Milius,John

Envyand wrathshortenthelife, and carefulnessbringeth age before the time.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

   I am convinced that the history of so-called scientific work in our famous centers of European civilization will, in a couple of hundred years, represent an inexhaustible source of laughter and sorrow for future generations. The learned men of the small western part of our European continent lived for several centuries under the illusionthatthe eternal blessed life wastheWest'sfuture. They were interested in the problem of when and where this blessed life would come.But they never thought of how they were going to make their life better.

—Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

—Saroyan,William

The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life† My life began by flickering out.

—Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich

It has been a damned serious businessöBlucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thingöthe nearest run thing you ever saw in your life† By God! Idon'tthink it would have doneif Ihad not been there!

—Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

One of the strongest motives that lead people to give their lives to art and science is the urge to flee from everyday life, with its drab and deadly dullness and thus to unshackle the chains of one's own transient desires, which supplant one another in an interminable succession so long as the mind is fixed on the horizon of daily environment.

—Einstein, Albert

   Photography was conceived as a mirror of the universal elements and emotions ofthe everydayness of lifeöas a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world.

—Steichen, Edward Jean

Asyougrowolder, you'll seewhitemen cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget itöwheneverawhitemandoesthattoa black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

—Lee, (Nelle) Harper

   Every life has a Scheherazadesworth of stories.

—Barth,John Simmons

If you don't spend every morning of your life writing, it's awfully difficult to know what to do otherwise.

—Powell, Anthony Dymoke

I hardly know which is the greater pest to society: a paternal Government; that is to say, a prying meddlesome Government, which intrudes itself into every part of human life and which thinks that it can do everything for everybody better than anyone can do for himself, or a careless, lounging Government, which suffers grievances, such as it could at once remove, to grow and multiply, and which to all complaint and remonstrance has only one answer,'We must let things taketheir course, we must let things find theirown level.'

—1st Baron

Nothing is so conducive to greatness of mind as the ability to examine systematically and honestly everything that meets us in life.

—Antoninus

Aconspiracy iseverything thatordinary lifeisnot.It'sthe inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us.We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle.Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach.

—DeLillo, Don

Poetry cannot take sides except with life.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating heartsand living affections,onlyassomany things belonging tothemasteröso long asthefailure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless miseryand toilöso long is it impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

—Stowe, Harriet (Elizabeth) ne¤  e Beecher

The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

   Thepreludetoresurrectionaswe experienceit inthislife is always powerlessness.We cannot raise ourselves by our own bootstrings.

—Williams, HarryAbbott

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itselföalways changing, infinite in its variety, sometimesturbulent and allthemorevaluableforhaving been tested by adversity.

—Carter,Jimmy (James Earl)

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.

—Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.

—Niebuhr, Reinhold

I have always looked upon decayas being just as wonderful an expression of life as growth.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

A judge is not supposed to know anything about the facts of life until they have been presented in evidence and explained to him at least three times.

—Parker, Hubert Lister

He stared the assorted meannesses and failed promises of American life straight in the face, and they stared back.

—Gill, Brendan

You see, family life is all the life she knows: she's like a bird bornina cage, that would dieif you let it looseinthe woods.

—Shaw, George Bernard

As fattening is the first duty of fashionable female life, it must be duly enforced by the rod if necessary. I got up a bit of flirtation with missy, and induced her to rise and shake hands with me. Her face was lovely, but her body was as round as a ball.

—Speke,John Hanning

Menalwaystry tomake virtues oftheir weaknesses.Fear of death and fear of life become piety.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life!

—O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet; Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.

—Moore,Thomas

Hisfacewearing thefixityof athoughtful child'swho has felt the pricks of life somewhat before his time.

—Hardy,Thomas

My soul's a trampled duelling ground where Sade, the gallant marquis, fences for his life against the invulnerable retrograde Masoch, his shade, more constant than a wife.

—Rickword, Edgell

May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

—Newman,John Henry

This fight is bigger than life itself.

—King, Don

He held curls to be effeminate, and his own filled his life with bitterness.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

—Rhodes, Cecil John

   What do the facts we know about a man amount to? Only two things we can know of him, and this by pure soul-intuition: we can know if he is true to the flame of life and love which is inside his heart, or if he is false to it.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

Flops are a part of life's menu, and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

—Russell, Rosalind

   Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

—Tennyson

   Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

—Luther, Martin

Vitae, non scholae discimus. It is for life, not for school that we learn.

—Seneca full name Lucius AnnaeusSeneca called theYounger

For the life in them he loved most living things, But a tree chiefly.

—Thomas, (Philip) Edward

It's better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

—Jarrell, Randall

The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun, And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

—Bible (NewTestament)

The tendency nowadays to wander in wildernesses is delightful to see. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains isgoing home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

—Muir,John

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

—Thorpe, (John) Jeremy

No good poetry is written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinksfrombooks, conventionand cliche¤  ; and not from life.

—Pound, Ezra Loomis

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you takethe energy processseriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

—Leary,Timothy Francis

For thewages of sinisdeath; butthegiftof God iseternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.But put forththinehand now, and touchhisboneand his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

—Bible (Old Testament)

If you work very hard, and give life everything you've got, you may not quite make it.

—Yost, Elwy

Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.Iamthegood shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold: them also must I bring, and theyshall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the riverö There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

All my originality consists†in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.

—Redon, Odilon

The Huns†chanted a funeral song to the memory of a hero, glorious inhis life, invincible in his death, the father of his people, the scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world.

—Gibbon, Edward

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.

—Shaw, George Bernard

   A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

—Sandburg, Carl

A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact that in times of stress 'educated'people tend to come to the front.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

   Golf is like life in a lot of ways. The most important competition is the one against yourself.

—Clinton, Bill (William)

Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid†an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and† It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.

—Carey, Peter

My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires, My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Followed false lights; and when their glimpse was gone My pride struck out new sparkles of her own† Good life be now my task: my doubts are done; (What more could fright my faith thanThree in One?)

—Dryden,John

Wisdom without honesty is mere craft and cozenage. And therefore the reputation for honesty must first be gotten; which cannot be but by living well. A good life is a main argument.

—Jonson, Ben

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love.

—Wordsworth,William

You bind the goods and trappings of your life together with your dreams to make a place that is uniquely your own.

—Moore, Charles W(illard)

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It isnotthestreetsthatexist.It isthestreetsthat no longer exist. It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget. What you must go on forgetting all your life.

—Fenton,James

Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievements, they just didn't do one thingölike the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountain tops than possibly I deserved.

—Thorneycroft, Lord (George Edward) Peter

If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint-stockcompanies, the universities, and the public charities, were all of them branches of government; if, in addition, the municipal corporations and local boards, with all that now devolves on them, became departments of the central administration; if the employees of all these different enterprises were appointed and paid by the government, and looked to the government for every rise in life; not all the freedom of the press and popular constitution of the legislature would make this or any other country free otherwise than in name.

—Mill,John Stuart

  From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There isgrandeur in this view of life.

—Darwin, Charles Robert

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

—Wright, Frank Lloyd

Quite as many false ideas prevail as to woman's true position in the home as to her status elsewhere. Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of flattery, and to suppose that the encomiast always knows and feels the falsehood of his assertions, issurely to discover great ignorance of human nature and human life. In determinations depending not on rules, but on experience and comparison, judgement is always to some degree subject to affection.Very near to admiration is the wish to admire.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

It's a great life if you don't weaken.

—Buchan,John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir

Alle kr a« ftige Menschen lieben das Leben All great, powerful souls love life.

—Heine, Heinrich

   Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

  It isanuneasy lot at best, tobe what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at thisgreat spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

—Warren, Robert Penn

   It is not, therefore, reason, which is the guide of life, but custom.

—Humboldt, Alexander, Baron von

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

—Rogers,Will

ThepoorestHethat isinEnglandhathalifetoliveaswellas the greatest He, and therefore, truly Sirs,Ithink that every man that is to live under a Government ought first, by his own consent, to put himself under that Government.

—Rainborowe,Thomas

Thus you see, Sir, that these people are not so unpolished as we represent them.'Tis true, their magnificence is of a different taste from ours, and perhaps of a better. I am almost of opinion, they have a right notion of life. They consume it in music, gardens, wine, and delicate eating, while we are tormenting our brains with some scheme of politics, or studying some sciencetowhichwe canneverattain, or, if we do, cannot persuade other people to set that value upon it we do ourselves† We die or grow old before we can reap the fruit of our labours.Considering what short-lived weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?

—Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley ne¤  e Pierrepoint

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

—Peck, M(organ) Scott

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessaryelements of a healthystate of political life.

—Mill,John Stuart

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Here one is in Later Life, and it's perfectly pleasant really, not for a moment that garden of cactus and sour grapes I'd always assumed it must be.

—Merrill,James Ingram

   Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. 61

—Barth,John Simmons

   What things have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtil flame, As if that every one from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool, the rest Of his dull life.

—Beaumont, Francis

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

'Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.'

—Owen,Wilfred

Car loin de le [le lecteur] ne¤  gliger, l'auteur aujourd'hui proclame l'absolu besoin qu'il a de son concours actif, conscient, cre¤  ateur. Ce qu'il lui demande, ce n'est plus de recevoir tout fait un monde acheve¤  , plein, clos sur lui- me"  me, c'est au contraire de participer a'   une cre¤  ation, d'inventer a'   son tour l'½uvreöet le mondeöet d'apprendre ainsi a'   inventer sa propre vie. Far from neglecting him [the reader], the author today proclaims the absolute necessity of the reader's active, conscious and creative assistance.What he demands of the reader is no longer to receive a ready-made world, complete, full, closed in upon itself.On the contrary, the reader isasked toparticipateinthe creation, toinvent for himself aworköand the worldöand tounderstand thus how to invent his own life.

—Robbe-Grillet, Alain

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure unfinished masterpiece.

—Nabokov,Vladimir

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

—Manning, Henry Edward

   I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

—Bible (NewTestament)

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.Work is x ; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

—Einstein, Albert

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Thenover thepark (where Ifirst inmy life, it being a great frost, did see people sliding with their skates, which is a very pretty art).

—Pepys, Samuel

Si la vie est mise¤  rable, elle est pe¤  nible a'   supporter; si elle est heureuse, il est horrible de la perdre. L'un revient a' l'autre. If lif