Such Is Life Quotes

• You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Philosophy, Writing, Literature

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• Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

  Ratan Tata

  Moving On, Encouraging, Uplifting

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• Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

  Norman Wisdom

  Might, Firsts, Life Is

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Animal, Thinking Man

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.

  Sarada Devi

  Evil, Today, Merit

  Sarada Devi (1963). “At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi”

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• Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

  Amby Burfoot

  Life, Running, Track And Field

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.15, Rodale

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• You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

  Claude Chabrol

  Pigeons, Facts, Sometimes

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• Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Vachel Lindsay (1963). “Selected poems”

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• There will be beautiful times and tough times, as such is life, but if your heart is in it, then it is worth it all the way.

  Irena A. Hoffman

  Beautiful, Heart, Tough Times

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• We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

  Allen Steele

  Stupid, Mistake, Young

  Allen Steele (2002). “Coyote”, p.295, Penguin

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• Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Sleep, Novelists

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

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• The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Soul

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

  Sarah Dessen

  Memories, Perfect, Cracks

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• Ah well, I suppose it has come to this... Such is life.

  Ned Kelly

  Wells

  Ned Kelly's last words before he was hanged in the Melbourne Jail, November 11, 1880.

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• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Life, Mud, Made

  1851 The House of the Seven Gables, ch.2.

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• In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Life, Dream, Morning

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Proverbial philosophy”, p.150

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• But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.

  Alfred Doblin

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.

  Robert Pollard

  Writing, Trying

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• Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

  Joseph Furphy

  Art, Player, Stories

  Joseph Furphy, Frances Devlin-Glass (1991). “The annotated Such is life: such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins”

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• Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

  John Green

  Growing Up, Moon, Tiny

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.140, Penguin

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• I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Thinking, Long, Wizards

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• Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Lying, Real

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.90, 谷月社

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• When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

  Zadie Smith

  Religious, Writing, Editors

  "This is how it feels to me" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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• Such is Life [Executed by hanging.]

  Ned Kelly

  Life

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