John Updike Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

  John Updike

  Life, Experience, Doe

  "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.

• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

  John Updike

  Life, Faces, Fame

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 26, 2013

• Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

  John Updike

  Life, Rain, Sky

• Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

  John Updike

  Life, Yummy, Long

• Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

  John Updike

  Life, Fall, Roller Coaster

• You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

  John Updike

  Life, Smell, Failure In Life

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.355, Random House

• Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.

  John Updike

  Life, Water, Hot

• Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.

  John Updike

  Life, Games, Video

• As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

  John Updike

  Life, Self, Years

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.3, Random House

• Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

  John Updike

  Life, Firsts, Grownups

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.281, Random House

• Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

  John Updike

  Life, Memories, Drama

• The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.

  John Updike

  Life, People, Wake Up

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.232, Random House

• Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

  John Updike

  Life, Yesterday, Too Much

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.400, Random House

• Our lives fade behind us before we die.

  John Updike

  Life, Behinds, Fades

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.50, Random House

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