E. B. White Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

  E. B. White

  Life, Heaven, Trying

• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.148, Cornell University Press

• Writing is both mask and unveiling.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

• I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Luck, Men

• Loneliness is a strange gift.

  E. B. White

  Life, Loneliness, Strange

• An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.

  E. B. White

  Life, Eggs, Challenges

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

• Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

  E. B. White

  Life, Men, Wife

  "The Commuter" l. 1 (1982)

• Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

  E. B. White

  Life, Justice

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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