Metaphors Of Life Quotes - Page 2

• 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

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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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• I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Spiritual, Fun

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• Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Football, Games

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• There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Funny, Life, Sweet

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “My Best Short Stories (Annotated Edition)”, p.75, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

  Brendan Gill

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

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• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Depression

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Purpose, Ifs

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• You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Literature, Metaphor, Slang

  Defendant (1901) "Defence of Slang"

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• Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Crazy, May

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• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Life, Inspiring, Funny Inspirational

  Quoted in Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best (1974)

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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

  Robert Jones Burdette

  Meaningful, Good Life, Live Life

  "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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