Life Quotes

"The years that are gone seem like dreams--if one might go on sleeping and dreaming--but to wake up and find--oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life." ~ The Awakening by Kate Chopin "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipt them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish'd by our virtues." ~ All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience. ~ The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast. ~ Dubliners by James Joyce Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below. ~ The Curse of Eve by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Life's more than breath and the quick round of blood;
It is a great spirit and a busy heart. ~ Festus by Philip James Bailey We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. ~ Festus by Philip James Bailey "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent." ~ A Case of Identity by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "We are all born for love," said Morley. "It is the principle of existence, and its only end." ~ Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli "It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms." ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens