Quotes about Life

I can have a career right into my old age, creating music in some way. It seems like a lovely way to go through life.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments

The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice.

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.