L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.”
“Life goes on, whether you like it or not. I just wished it could lurch forward. Time is the best doctor, they say, and that’s bullshit, because from certain pains you can never heal. They keep screaming inside of you till eventually you get used to the noise and can hear again the life outside, but they are always there, aching, clawing at your soul.”
Source: Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time
“Life goes on with fragile normalcy.”
Source: The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House
“Life goes on within you and without you”
“Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.”
“Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set
Spot in the middle
Static fade, statistic bit
And soon I fade away, fade away”
“Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.”
“Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).”
“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah”
Source: Marly's Ghost
“Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Life goes quickly, doesn't it?”
“Life goes so fast, and there is so much to do. But the moments that have enriched my life the most came when I slowed down and connected with the people I care about.”
“Life goes until it ends. Even sleep isn’t a real break. It’s more like the blinking of an eye.”
Source: In Limbo
“Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.”
Source: On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment
“Life grants a single passage; let the journey be radiant, purposeful, and indelible.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
“Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.”
“Life grows lovely where you are.”
Source: The Ascent of Man
“Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.”
“Life hackers tell two stories about their relationship to possessions. If the first is about the gear and tools they find essential, the second is how they get rid of everything else. (*Hacking Life*, p. 73)”
“life hacking, especially the optimizing type, is associated with a type of tunnel vision. Life hacking can be like donning a set of horse blinkers so as to block out distractions and focus attention on personal goals. This means, however, that with their vision fixed on the horizon, hackers can be naive to the people and circumstances on their periphery. The more optimal the hacking, the more narrow and distant the vision tends to be. (*Hacking Life*, p. 12)”
“Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.”
Source: West with the Night
“Life had a habit of delivering surprises or, more often, withholding them entirely.”
Source: Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies
“Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it.Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic.Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy.”
“Life had agreed to find her useful. It knew, something knew, at last, that she was here. Anything was possible. Everything was true. People could indeed change out of recognition, permanently, between two breaths.”
Source: The Watch Tower
“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”
“Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
That was the business of hiding a Jew.”
Source: The Book Thief
“Life had become a constant battle against the ordinary, a struggle to keep the flame of creativity alive amidst the downpour of routine.”
Source: Gnight, Sara / 'Night, Heck
“Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.”
Source: X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography
“Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.”
“Life had been hard on him, but he was still moving, and he was still working, and he was still fighting for those who couldn't fight for themselves.”
Source: A Madness of Sunshine
“Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.”
Source: Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
“Life had decided that Aisling and I should not walk the same road hand in hand anymore. My heart had decided never to forget, and my hands missed the warmth of her hands. My eyes searched for her continually, but I could not see her. I did not know if to trust my heart that told me she was always nearby or my eyes that could not see her. I wished to say to her, "Aisling, I am right beside you, and I will love you always.”
“Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.”
Source: Not Quite a Husband
“Life had made her afraid, of words that were no meant, of emotions that were untrue.”
Source: Easter at the Lakes
“Life had made her an expert at mashing feelings into a storable size. But loneliness has a compass of its own.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.”
Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd
“Life had seemed so simple once, now it suddenly seemed so complicated. I could remember a time when my only worry had been paying Charlie the three bucks I owed him.”
Source: That Was Then, This Is Now
“Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false spring… But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”
Source: A Moveable Feast
“Life had sprung up along the trail. The thin film of green in the trees had become a cloud of new leaves. Robins, bluebirds, vireos, finches, songbirds of all types made the brush along the trail a wall of sharp melody.”
Source: Chickadee
“Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“Life had stepped into the place of theory.”
Source: Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections
“Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.”
Source: Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“Life had taken unexpected turns for Jeff, though of course he recognized that the CIA was the natural progression for him. Hell, it’s practically the family business…”
Source: Solitary Man
“Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.”
Source: Prom Night in Purgatory
“Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.”
“Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves.”
“Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.”
“Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows.”
“Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!”
Source: Poems