Life Quotes

"God did not give me my life to throw away." ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte "'Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.'" ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster "Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope." ~ A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde The end of religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live. ~ Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than anyone can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking. ~ Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred. ~ Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together! ~ Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. ~ Dune by Frank Herbert I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte