- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Exacting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
- Fiddling
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- Nov 07, 2020
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
- Damn Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
- Formal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020