Life Goes On

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
it goes on.”
—Robert Frost


“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton


“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.


“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning



 
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
― Orson Welles


 

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

 

 

 

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller

 

 

 

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

 

 

 

 “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

 

 

 

 “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
― Anthony Trollope

 

 

 

 “All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

 

 

 

 “Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

 

 

 

 

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Brontë

 

 

 

 

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

 

 

 

 

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

 

 

 

 “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

 

 

 

 

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

 

 

 

 

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci 

 

  

 

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

 

 

 

 

 

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

 

 

 

 

“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

 

 

“We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”
― Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem

 

 

 

 

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

 

 

 

 

 

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

 

 

 

 

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”
― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814

 

 

 “It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry

 

 

  

 “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

 

 

 

“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature

 

 

 

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days

 

 

 “April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

 

 

 

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

 

 

 

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

 

 

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

 

 

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

 

 

 

“May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fall out.”
― Irish Blessing

 

 

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman