Quotations About / On: LIFE

  • 41.
    Commitments, not feelings, hold life together.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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  • 42.
    Medicine: "Your money and your life!"
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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  • 43.
    How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
    (Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972), U.S.-born French author. Quoted in George Wickes, The Amazon of Letters, ch. 10 (1976).)
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  • 44.
    I have a life that did not become,
    that turned aside and stopped,
    astonished:
    (Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Easter Morning (l. 1-3). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 45.
    Life is what it makes you.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).)
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  • 46.
    Life is an incurable disease.
    (Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), British essayist, poet. To Dr. Scarborough, st. 6 (1656).)
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  • 47.
    Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
    (Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Ajax, l. 553.)
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  • 48.
    While there's life, there's fear.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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  • 49.
    A kiss may ruin a human life.
    (Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Mrs. Arbuthnot, in A Woman of No Importance, act 4.)
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  • 50.
    Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
    (Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction.")
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