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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 Jul 30, 2026
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scribbler's life is never done.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
- Us
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great life and I'm super active.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020