Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

• There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

• What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

• How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

• The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Stars, Piano

  "Afterthoughts". Book by Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931.

• The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"

• All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Mind, Vacancy

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