L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.”
“Life for the artist and all humanity is a soulful objet d’art full of hope, promise, expectation, romance, love, and affection.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Life for the Christian is a dialogue with God.”
“Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.”
Source: The humanist in the bathtub
“Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals”
“Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Life for the living, and rest for the dead!”
Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems
“Life for the majority of the population.
Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
Culminating in a cheap funeral.”
Source: Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs
“Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.”
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“Life for the theistic of abrahamic traditions is a constant juggle between masturbating towards pixels on a screen and brief abstention of this act as one torments themselves over the fiery consequences of their past sinful actions; only to commence said sinful actions again. Thus the cycle of pleasure and guilt continues as strong in the law of human nature as the cycle of the moon and sun in the law of the universe.”
“Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.”
“Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.”
Source: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir
“Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis and Briseis are strong, passionate women and in another time and place their lives would have been very different. Part of the tragedy of their characters is how much they have to offer - and how little of that they get to realize. Thetis spends the whole novel fighting the limitations placed on her, desperately trying to eke out the best she can from a bad situation. This makes her fierce and terrifying.”
“Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.”
Source: Absurdistan
“Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.”
“Life forces us to go to scary places, life forces us to be with traitorous people, and it also forces us to love and have our hearts broken by those we love sincerely.”
“Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.”
Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
“Life-forms are like the molecules of H20 that push against each other to propagate the energy of the wave. We must die in doing so. There is no tragedy in that simple fact. The tragedy is in not knowing it and not seeing its meaning for each other and all life-forms.”
Source: Ethics of Life: freedom and diversity
“Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?”
“Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission”
“Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.”
“Life, from the moment it began on this planet covered by a delicate and fragile atmosphere, has had to battle against countless challenges that threaten its very survival every single second. Beyond this thin layer of air, life, as we know it, cannot exist. Therefore, we must protect our lives fiercely, like shielding a flame from the wind or preserving a beautiful bubble from bursting, or like a dew drop sparkling in the morning sun that we don’t want to let fall. We need to cherish this life intensely and intimately.”
Source: For Humans To Know: New Revised Edition
“Life from the other end.”
“Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.”
“Life gave him too much lemonade, so he makes lemons when it suits him.”
Source: Tell Me Something Good
“Life gave me a reason to live.
You gave me reason to love.”
“Life gave me a weird path to walk and it wasn't a very traditional path and that's good, I enjoyed it greatly. But I don't think that it was anybody's traditional definition of success but I really am thankful for it.”
“Life gave me everything I asked
If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem!”
“Life gave me its hand,
and I grasped it.
We’d wasted too many years
being estranged.”
“Life gave me lemons, then I met you and you had Vodka. Now my life is a party.”
“Life geometry — if you seek happiness in dice, misfortune comes squared.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Life gets better. We don't have to end up anywhere near where we started.”
Source: Barefoot ~ A Surfer's View of the Universe
“Life gets better when health becomes your first priority.”
“Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.”
“Life gets easier when you are ready to face the stress and storms of life.”
“Life gets half of its beauty from death.”
“Life gets harder and harder. They say we have a lot of people in this country. And the most abundant are the poor. Hordes of poor people everywhere. But what can we do? What are we guilty of? That is why there's so much hunger in the villages and everywhere. Well I don't think life should be that way. "What's important is to be aware that one is poor," Chepe tells me repeatedly. "And what good is that?" I ask him. And he replies that only that way will we become strong enough to claim, to demand that which we have a right to. Everything else is a farce. What we must always insist on is the rights of the poor.”
Source: One Day of Life
“Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.”
“Life gets in the way of Creativity, but it's up to us not to let it interfere more than necessary.”
“Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.”
“Life gets more complicated and projects get more complicated after that.”
“Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.”
“Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.”
“Life gets tangled and matter - especially when things start to go right.”
Source: Gambling a Fairytale:
“Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.”
“Life gives birth to chaos. Chaos is potential, it's thought, dreams and brainstorms.
Creation is the expression of chaos in the visible world.
Order is the action of creation, of the created, the doing, the direction, the energy of the chaos, becoming the expression of creation.
Soul is a mix of chaos and art, together they are the life of the expression." Allison Marie
Her. EverBeing on 'Medium”
“Life gives choices, it’s we who decide our future”
“Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.”
“Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.”
“Life gives nothing to man without labor.”