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What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte - there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.
Lord Byron

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends what you put into it.
Tom Lehrer

People seem to think I’m mischievous and devilish, so I guess they saw that when I auditioned. In real life I’m pretty balanced
Josie Maran

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
George MacDonald

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel Trilling

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Eugene Ionesco

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Edna Ferber

I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. (In James Boswell Life of Samuel Johnson)
Oliver Edwards

Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Dick Clark

There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another.' Human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole.
Arnold Toynbee

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in...
David Niven

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T Washington

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul Richter

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl Buck

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand

I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.
Jennifer Love Hewitt

'I would rather die standing up, then live life on my knees.'
Che Guavara

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved
Cornelius Nepos

'What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become, except in dreams that blow in from out there bearing the fragrance of islands we have not yet sighted in our waking hours...' (David Malouf, An Imaginary Life, p.135)
David Malouf

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel Johnson

There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love. (Johnny Depp 'Don Juan de Marco')
Johnny Depp

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.
George Carlin

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
Shania Twain

A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value
Caroline Norton

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Robert Browning

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
Bruce Barton

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
Charles Lamb

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Henry Ward Beecher

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
Ty Cobb

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. (The Mysterious Universe)
Sir James Jeans

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich

What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis... and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
Julia Roberts

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.
Samuel Johnson

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible...and enjoying everything in between
Mia Farrow

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney Smith

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do
Thomas Carlyle

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
Charles Peguy

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
Potter Stewart

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against
Damon Runyon

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle

He who binds himself to joy doth the winged life destroy but he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
William Blake

When you realise what life would be like without the freedoms that we in the West take for granted every day, you realise just how miserable half of human existence has been.
Jim Gibbons

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Arthur Rimbaud



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