This Life Quotes - Page 33

• Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

  Richard Bach

  Real, Fiction, Seems

  "The Adventures of a Reluctant Student". Interview with Lee Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. May 16, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

  Bob Dylan

  Self, People, Sufficiency

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Symphony

  6 Copy quote

• Yet they that know all things but know
  That all this life can give us is
  A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Laughter, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.188, William Butler Yeats

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• This life is a war we are not yet
  winning for our daughters' children.
  Don't do your enemies' work for them.
  Finish your own.

  Marge Piercy

  Daughter, Perseverance, Children

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.115, Knopf

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Fear, Self

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. It is better to aim for something that you want-even though you miss it-than to get something that you didn't aim to get, and which you don't want! If we look long enough for what we want in life we are almost sure to find it, no matter what that objective may be.

  George Matthew Adams

  Sacrifice, Long, Missing

  4 Copy quote

• Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

  Samuel Richardson

  Hypocrite, Want, Next

  4 Copy quote

• You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Perfect, Individuality, Monsters

  "Fictional character: Maurice Oboukhoff". "The Killing", www.imdb.com. 1956.

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our planet
  is poorly equipped
  for delight.
  One must snatch
  gladness
  from the days that are.
  In this life
  it's not difficult to die.
  To make life
  is more difficult by far.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Delight, Life Is, Planets

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1965). “Mayakovsky”

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• We may never know in this life why we face what we do, but we can feel confident that we can grow from the experience.

  James B. Martino

  May, Faces, Grows

  4 Copy quote

• We all have to do things in this life that we don't like.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Marlene Van Niekerk (2008). “The Way of the Women”, Abacus Software

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

  Max Lucado

  Pain, Filters, Next

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2010

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The very best and highest attainment in this life is to
  remain still and let God act and speak in you.

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Life Is, Speak

  85 Copy quote

• The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Purpose, Life Is, Goodness

  7 Copy quote

• If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a drought, mere human galls stung by the devil once), then all your joy and serenity is reduced to grinning and bearing it. The fact is, you have got to take the world on your shoulders like Atlas, and "put along" with it. You will do this for an idea's sake, and your success will be in proportion to your devotion to ideas. It may make your back ache occasionally, but you will have the satisfaction of hanging it or twirling it to suit yourself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, Mean, Ideas

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Dream, Believe

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a hindrance. However flattering order and expediency may look, it is but the repose of a lethargy, and we will choose rather to be awake, though it be stormy, and maintain ourselves on this earth, and in this life, as we may, without signing our death-warrant. Let us see if we cannot stay here, where He has put us, on his own conditions. Does not his law reach as far as his light? The expedients of the nations clash with one another: only the absolutely right is expedient for all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Light, Order

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly:
  Then, heigh-ho, the holly.
  This life is most jolly.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Hollies, Life Is

  7 Copy quote

• This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

  William P. Young

  Life, Reality, Greater

  4 Copy quote

• Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.

  Henry Adams

  Faith, Queens, Heaven

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.92, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

  Thomas More

  God, God Love, Cunning

  8 Copy quote

• There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul
  Like a day on a stream,
  Back on the banks of the old fishing hole
  Where a fellow can dream.
  There's nothing so good for a man as to flee
  From the city and lie
  Full length in the shade of a whispering tree
  And gaze at the sky.
  . . . .
  It is good for the world that men hunger to go
  To the banks of a stream,
  And weary of sham and of pomp and of show
  They have somewhere to dream.
  For this life would be dreary and sordid and base
  Did they not now and then
  Seek refreshment and calm in God's wide, open space
  And come back to be men.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Lying, Men

  5 Copy quote

• Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Wisdom, Love You

  6 Copy quote

• Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Taken, Hands

  4 Copy quote