L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.”
“Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?”
“Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.”
“Life has a very unique way of
creating art. Art is life; raw and
unique. Each moment different
from the last and the next never a
repeat of any from the past.”
“Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.”
Source: Styxx
“Life has a way of changing the path you are on when you least expect it.”
Source: Dangerously Divine
“Life has a way of demanding that you live it.”
“Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.”
“Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.”
Source: Breaking Night
“Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.”
“Life has a way of going in circles. Ideally, it would be a straight path forward––we'd always know where we were going, we'd always be able to move on and leave everything else behind. There would be nothing but the present and the future. Instead, we always find ourselves where we started. When we try to move ahead, we end up taking a step back. We carry everything with us, the weight exhausting us until we want to collapse and give up.
We forget things we try to remember. We remember things we'd rather forget. The most frightening thing about memory is that it leaves no choice. It has mastered an incomprehensible art of forgetting. It erases, it smudges, it fills in blank spaces with details that don't exist.
But however we remember it––or choose to remember it––the past is the foundation that holds our lives in place. Without its support, we'd have nothing for guidance. We spend so much time focused on what lies ahead, when what has fallen behind is just as important. What defines us isn't where we're going, but where we've been. Although there are places and people we will never see again, and although we move on and let them go, they remain a part of who we are.
There are things that will never change, things we will carry along with us always. But as we venture into the murky future, we must find our strength by learning to leave things behind.”
“Life has a way of humbling us, and anytime I felt I mastered this game of life, it proved me wrong. So, my advice is to live this life to the fullest and make your existence count.”
Source: Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
“Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.”
Source: Straight
“Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.”
“Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.”
“Life has a way of showing you how strong you are and how much you can take. They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I guess there’s some kind of truth in that. As for me, what didn’t kill me broke me into a trillion pieces. What didn’t kill me made me bitter. What didn’t kill me caused a lot of hurt and pain. What didn’t kill me made me want more out of life. What didn’t kill me after all the shit I’d been through finally showed me mercy.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.”
Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel
“Life has a way of taking you exactly where you are meant to be. Even when things don’t go according to plan. Even when you sense it’s time to say goodbye to people, places, and things. Even if your unexpected setbacks lead you smack center to new opportunities and profound experiences.”
Source: Intuitive Guide: How to Trust Your Gut, Embrace Divine Signs, & Connect with Heavenly Messengers
“Life has a way of testing our anchors and tempting us to drift. Nevertheless, if our anchors are correctly placed in the rock of our Redeemer, they will hold—no matter the force of the wind, the strength of the tide, or the height of the waves.”
“Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.”
“Life has abundant treasures, when your settings are on right.”
“Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better.”
“Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully”
“Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.”
“Life has always been a small matter with me when duty points the way”
“Life has always been and will always be beautiful, regardless of how some or even all people have looked, are looking, or will look at it.”
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away -an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains." -Memories, Dreams, Reflections -Carl Gustav Jung”
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”
Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung
“Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.”
Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939
“Life has an amazing ability to make our choices terribly difficult: For example, sometimes it makes the port wonderful, but it also makes the sea wonderful, leaving the person stuck in the dilemma of whether to stay in the port or go to the sea!”
“Life has an amazing way of helping you realize your dreams in ways far from what you could have ever imagined at the beginning of your dream. In the world of dreams and vision, bigger is better, and there's no way to get there with a shortcut.”
“Life has an end.
It can end at any moment.”
“Life has an uncanny way of tying up a host of loose ends. Not in the neat, all-creases-matching, hospital corner-to-corner kind of way, but in a cloudy, murky, uncertain mish-mash collection of what ifs, could haves, and a bus load of should haves kind of way. But what happens when all the magnificent stars in the heavens and all the resolute planets in the galaxy agree to simultaneously align? What happens when the glorious birds of prey in the sky and the steadfast worker ants of the ground all decide to ally? And more intriguingly, what happens when the settling of old hurts and scores becomes so alluring, so certain, with the whispered promise of everlasting, as to lure with it a collection of hardly surviving, barely functioning, scattered, and damaged souls together once again? As one door finally seemed to close tightly shut, two others flung wide open, and the darkness of life’s most protected secrets and haunts invited the crippling unknown to bask once again in the glaring, naked light.”
Source: As One Door Closes
“Life has become a state of sensory overload.”
“Life has become easier. Most of us have the means to live an easier life.
But so few of us have the meaning to live for, or a reason to die for.”
Source: Dream On
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
“Life has become like a hard day in school and waiting for the bell to ring so we may go out with flying colors”
“Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then.”
“Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.”
“Life has become the future.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Life has become the ideology of its own absence.”
“Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.”
“Life has become:
video games and live streams,
reaching out to strangers to share dreams...
talking about important things
to open air and vacant, vapid memes...
posting things you want to be seen,
but knowing that a click of "Like" is all that it means...
sitting at dinner eating with family,
and feeling your thoughts are less important
than media newsfeed.
So, I ask you—
and answer honestly—
are you lonely?
We'll never know,
will we?
Because that would not be
post-worthy.
No one gets "Likes"
when your battery drains faster.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“Life has been bestowed upon us freely. NEVER! and I repeat NEVER........... at any one time allow anyone to make you plead for it!! Never plead for a life that you have been given this freely!!! You got to fight for it and protect and defend it! Protecting this life is the only reason why we ever need to fight anyone or anything!”
“Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.”
“Life has been fair, destiny may have staged it well but the timings were terrible.”
Source: The Masquerade
“Life has been full of evil, and if you don't start asking the right questions, the evil is going to be the end of you.”
Source: Untamed
“Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.”