Quotes about Life

Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

– VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway

Life was great and life was terrible and life could not be one without the other – that was all I knew, which was not to say that I understood it.

– PETER MATHIESSEN Bone by Bone

It wasn’t in fact possible to strip life of its cluster for the simple reason that life was clutter.

– RICHARD RUSSO Chances Are…

And that’s life, isn’t it? Some achievements and disappointments.

– JULIAN BARNES The Sense of an Ending

..but people are tenacious about life, and will go on living. It was not all of it a plot-like life: most of it was just a story – one thing after another – a chain of unnecessary accidents.

– T. H. WHITE The Once and Future King

And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.

– CHRISTINA HENRIQUEZ “The Wide, Pale Ocean” in Come Together, Fall Apart

…some people go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain,…

– EVAN S. CONNELL Mrs. Bridge

…life was neither linear or tidy

– TREVANIAN The Summer of Katya