L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Life and death occur without recourse
in a world like this. We are shot through by grief,
throwing our songs in the gathering
wind.”
“Life and death, they're equal to this cosmos. We enter the material world and we go away again, reincarnated into something better.”
“Life and Death took a break,
weary from their burdensome role.
Nobody lived or died that day.”
Source: The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2
“Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave the world. I was still in it, barely, and as I looked up from the ashes, everything around me seemed so sweet and so beautiful. The trees. The stars. The moon. I was alive -- and I was glad I was.”
Source: Vampire Academy Complete Series
“Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.”
Source: Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel
“Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.”
Source: The Bird Sisters
“Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.”
Source: Don't Waste Your Life
“Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above.”
“Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achievements. These alone count in life.”
“Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.”
“Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.”
“Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.”
Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
“Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing of real value is what we produce.”
Source: The Unit
“Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.”
“Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues.”
“Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.”
Source: Political Ideals
“Life and hope must cease together.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.”
“Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated.”
“Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.”
“Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.”
“Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.”
“LIFE AND LOVE, ARE AGELESS”
“Life and love are both fleeting, with so many afflictions tainting our minds and hearts of the not knowing what is next to come … The promises we have both made to each other. - No Promises”
Source: No Greater Love Than This
“Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles
“Life and love are not about what you know, but about what you know you don't know.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”
Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
“Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Life and love go on, let the music play.”
“Life and love go on.”
“Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I know it’s cliché to say about me at this point, but it’s true. My curiosity definitely is the driving force in my life and career. When you stop learning, engaging and growing, you’re dead.”
“Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.”
“Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my mind; on the contrary they will lead to a certain despair of the inner person. Not what he thinks engages the artist, but what he feels.”
“Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.”
“Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.”
“Life and reading are not separate activities, When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
Source: A Life with Books
“Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.”
Source: Become what You are
“Life and relationships is like a card game, you have to learn different strategies, learn from your mistakes, always play to win, show no mercy, take chances, believe in yourself, and play hand after hand until you finally win the game.”
“Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“LIFE, AND SOCCER IS A GAME BETWEEN PEOPLE WITH TWO FACE AND ONE HEAD”
“Life and sports cannot be separated; they are one.”
“Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.”
Source: Chime
“Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered.”
Source: Five Germanys I Have Known
“Life and stuttering were similar. There were no shortcuts, and if you tried to force or blast through, you got badly injured.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“Life and success are about what you choose to believe.”
Source: The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All
“Life and temporality are indispensably attached to the inevitability of death. Is ‘living’ a fight against inevitability?”
Source: Memoir: The Cathartic Night
“Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.”
Source: The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered
“Life and the Universe are beneficent. If we make friends with our experience and work with the flow of life rather than against it, we will find that our highest good is being supported on all levels, and that there is nothing to fear.”
Source: Resonance Alchemy: Awakening the Tree of Life
“Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.”