Life Quotes

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. ~ To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf What is the meaning of life? That was all--a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. ~ To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality. ~ Lord Arthur Saviles Crime by Oscar Wilde "The best of life is built on what we say when we're in love. It isn't nonsense, Katharine," she urged, "it's the truth, it's the only truth." ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf She carried her pocket Shakespeare about with her, and met life fortified by the words of the poets. ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald She had lived solely for the little things of life—the things that pass—forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity, bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing from one dwelling to the other—from twilight to unclouded day. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think," said Anne. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "All life lessons are not learned at college," she thought. "Life teaches them everywhere." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery