Quotes about Life

And, what was even more exciting, she felt, too, as she saw Mr Ramsay bearing down and retreating, and Mrs Ramsay sitting with James in the window and the cloud moving and the tree bending, how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach. Mr

Virtually all the characters in the novel have failed to live up to their early dreams and ambitions.

She must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.

If one shuts one's eyes and thinks of the novel as a whole, it would seem to be a creation owning a certain looking-glass likeness to life, though of course with simplifications and distortions innumerable.

Far away a bell tolls, but not for death. There are bells that ring for life. A leaf falls, from joy. Oh, I am in love with life!

He did not blame her; he blamed nothing, nobody; he saw the truth. He saw the dun-colored race of waters and the blank shore. But life is vigorous; the body lives, and the body, no doubt, dictated the reflection, which now urged him to movement, that one may cast away the forms of human beings, and yet retain the passion which seemed inseparable from their existence in the flesh.

What she liked was simply life. 'That's what I do it for', she said, speaking aloud, to life.

How could any Lord have made this world? she asked. With her mind she had always seized the fact that there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor.

But if there are no stories, what end can there be, or what beginning?

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.