Taste Of Life Quotes

• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

  John Updike

  Reading, Life Is Too Short, Writing

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Life, Sweet, Taste

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.315, Macmillan

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• All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taste, Life Is, Disputes

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Taste, Excuse

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation.

  David Hume

  Mean, Learning, College

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.368

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• [I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Men, What Matters

  Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1908). “The confession of a child of the century tr. by Kendall Warren”

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• No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Taste, Quitting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

  Kate Chopin

  Delirium Tremens, Soul, Contentment

  Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.72, e-artnow

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• If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

  Nick Nolte

  Age, Groups, Stories

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• In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell.

  Hope Mirrlees

  Horse, Memories, Men

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.247, F+W Media, Inc.

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• As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.

  Clint Eastwood

  Actors, Taste, Chance

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

  Edith Wharton

  Loneliness, Sky, Light

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.495, Delphi Classics

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