- Ride
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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
- Optimist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
- Dispassionate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
- Harmonious
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- Nov 07, 2020
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life.
- Gatherings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gym of life has a free membership. Build powerful life-muscles through family gatherings from hell. Do you really want to be a happy, peaceful blob?
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020