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Life Quotes - Page 506

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

Shashi Deshpande (1989). “That Long Silence”, p.102, Penguin Books India

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

"Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione". Translated by J. W. Basore,

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.

Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.118

I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.

"Welcome to Goslingland". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. August 10, 2011.