Life

What is life? We are born, we live a little and we die.

- EB White, "Charlotte's Web " ( ? )

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

- Emily Dickinson

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eyes before they die. The process is called 'living'.

- Terry Pratchett, "The Last Continent" ( ? )

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Life is neither a spectacle nor a feast, it is predicament.

- George Santayana, In Perspective

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

- Rene Magritte, In Art/Painting

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

- David Lodge, The British Museum is Falling Down, In Literature

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

- Isaac Asimov, In Death

Life is not a support system for art. It is the other way around.

- Stephen King, In Art

Life without love is meaningless and goodness without love is impossible.

- Greg Jurkiewicz, "The Neo-Reconstructionist Manifesto" ( ? ), In Love

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond

- Hypatia, In Religion

Art is a way of saying what it means to be alive, and the most salient feature of existence is the unthinkable odds against it. For every way that there is of being here, there are an infinity of ways of not being here. Historical accident snuffs out whole universes with every clock tick. Statistics declare us ridiculous. Thermodynamics prohibits us. Life, by any reasonable measure, is impossible, and my lifeóthis, here, nowóinfinitely more so. Art is a way of saying, in the face of all that impossibility, just how worth celebrating it is to be able to say anything at all.

- Richard Powers, In Art

Life is about the betterment of the human condition, stretching one's own mind, increasing social awareness, or even random acts of kindness that spill into the soul of humanity. This is why I play music.

- Mark Haugh, of Caroline's Spine , In Music

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The sigularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

- Robert Nesta Marley, In Music/Bob Marley

Life is only a outer layer, for reality is only realized by the insane.

- Valleix Herard, In Fear

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake up and live!

- Bob Marley, In Music/Bob Marley

Life dies inside a person when there are no others willing to be-friend him. He thus gets filled with emptiness and a non-existent sense of self-worth.

- Mark R. J. Lavoie, In Loneliness

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

- Neil Gaiman, In Philosophy

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems dont rhyme, and some stories dont have a clear begining middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the most of it without knowing whats going to happen next.

- Gilda Radner, In Humanity

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

- C.S. Lewis, In Humanity

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

- Shakespeare, In Literature/Shakespeare

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

- Eleanor Roosevelt, In Humanity

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

- Corita Kent, In Struggle/Success

Life is like playing the violin solo inpublic and learning the instument as you go.

- Edward Geroge Bulwer-Lytton, In Humanity

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

- Christopher Isherwood, In Imagination

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, In Love

Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes.

- Georges Carpentier, In Humanity

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

- Cathy Better, In Art/The Artist

Life is a mystery, not a problem to be solved

- Albert Einstein, In Mystery

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

- Amelia Earhart, "Courage" ( ? ), In Courage

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

- Anais Nin, "The Diary of Anais Nin" ( ? ), In Courage

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