What Is Life Quotes - Page 2

• What is life when living without the Lifemaker?

  Rachel

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• Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?

  Rajneesh

  Death, Zest, Waiting

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• What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Blessed, Men, Joy

  Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.34, Broadway Books

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• Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.

  Rajneesh

  Zest, Joy, Waiting

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• Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Buddhism, Loss

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• What is life without laughter?

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Laughter

  Trenton Lee Stewart (2014). “The Mysterious Benedict Society”, p.45, Chicken House

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• What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

  Christian Harrison

  Life, Tree, Gentle

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• How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Self, Mind, Inquiry

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• What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Dog, Horse

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• May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?

  David Gemmell

  Dream, May, Your Dreams

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• If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important question. If you don't bring in values and religion, you'll be asking superficial questions. What is life all about? What is our relationship to God? These are the important questions. What is our obligation to one another and community? If we don't ask those questions, the residual questions that we're asking aren't as interesting.

  Larry Brilliant

  Spiritual, Religious, Interesting

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• The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Heart, Lovers

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Life, Pain, Passion

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

  David Gemmell

  Men, Mad, Gone

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 12, 1985.

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• But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on.

  Bill Bryson

  Strong, Believe, Rocks

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.308, Lulu Press, Inc

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• what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Giving, Poverty, Seems

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing from behind.... Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.

  Kobo Abe

  Suicide, Mean, Enjoy Life

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• What is life without the joy of Love?

  Simonides of Ceos

  Joy

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• What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3078, Delphi Classics

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• And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run

  John Clare

  Running, Glasses, Hours

  John Clare (1820). “Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery”, p.35

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• Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

  Christina Stead

  Money, Passion, Jealous

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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• I actually hear into life - seeing everything that's occurring as a conversation with God in some form. So it really is the next song on the radio - a chance utterance of a friend on the street - it really is what's happening right now. I stop and think, 'What is life trying to tell me right now?' And "What does my soul know about this?'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Song, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

  Ernestine Rose

  Equality, Rights, Liberty

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• What is life, when wanting love?
  Night without a morning;
  Love's the cloudless summer sun,
  Nature gay adorning.

  Robert Burns

  Life, Summer, Morning

  Robert Burns, Hamilton PAUL (1819). “The Poems & Songs of Robert Burns, with a Life of the Author ... To which is Subjoined, an Appendix, Consisting of a Panegyrical Ode, and a Demonstration of Burns' Superiority to Every Other Poet as a Writer of Songs, by the Rev. Hamilton Paul”, p.223

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• What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Blame, Praise

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