What Is Life Quotes - Page 3

• And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run

  John Clare

  Running, Glasses, Hours

  John Clare (1820). “Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery”, p.35

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• What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peaceful, Interruptions

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• I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

  Tom Coburn

  Justice, Definitions, Want

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on.

  Bill Bryson

  Strong, Believe, Rocks

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.308, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What is life without the joy of Love?

  Simonides of Ceos

  Joy

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• People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What is life all about?" I find that people are able to accept the teaching of the Gospel when it's presented to them in both a rational and positive way.

  Jonathan Morris

  Believe, Teaching, People

  "Father Jonathan Morris talks about working with Mel Gibson, Fox News, self-help books and running The Cat". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. June 2012.

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• The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Heart, Lovers

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Blame, Praise

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• What is life, when wanting love?
  Night without a morning;
  Love's the cloudless summer sun,
  Nature gay adorning.

  Robert Burns

  Life, Summer, Morning

  Robert Burns, Hamilton PAUL (1819). “The Poems & Songs of Robert Burns, with a Life of the Author ... To which is Subjoined, an Appendix, Consisting of a Panegyrical Ode, and a Demonstration of Burns' Superiority to Every Other Poet as a Writer of Songs, by the Rev. Hamilton Paul”, p.223

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• What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.

  Billy Cobham

  Spectrum

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• To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.

  Rumi

  Without You

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• If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Friends Forever, Honest, Loved Ones

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Thinking, Feelings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.177

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• What is life if not a gamble?

  F.E. Higgins

  Gamble, Ifs

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• But what is life if you don't live it?

  James Patterson

  Ifs

  James Patterson (2011). “Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• What is death all about? What is life all about?

  Livia Bitton-Jackson

  Livia Bitton-Jackson (2011). “I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

  Cynthia Voigt

  Littles, Respectable, Ifs

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• Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.

  Leon Uris

  Mistake, Two, Important

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• What is life but a series of inspired follies.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Inspired, Folly

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, Xist Publishing

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• In the colored reflection we have Life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Reflection, Colorful

  "Faust".

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• What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

  James Clavell

  Clouds, Sky, Excuse

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.1132, Dell

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• I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

  Marian Keyes

  Despair, Together, Fleeting

  Marian Keyes (2008). “This Charming Man”, ePenguin

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• I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she knows that the Authority are the only people who might be able to help him.” “Or kill him,” I said. “That too. What is life without risk?” “Long?” Terric laughed, a sort of high whooping that made me—and Zayvion, much to my surprise—smile. Contagious. For all he had a serious exterior, Terric was the guy you’d want to sit next to at a funny movie, just to hear him laugh.

  Devon Monk

  Ideas, Long, People

  "Magic on the Storm". Book by Devon Monk, 2010.

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• What is life but playing with time?

  Keith Richards

  Keith Richards (2014). “Keith Richards on Keith Richards”, p.244, Omnibus Press

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• What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Vision

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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