38 Quotes on Life from Books
Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 38 quotes about Life that I underlined from various books. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Life Quotes from 11/22/63 book by Stephen King
- I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?
- Life turns on a dime. Sometimes toward us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?
- Life is too sweet to give up without a fight, don't you think?
- Life turns on a dime, and when it does, it turns fast.
Life Quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray book by Oscar Wilde
- To become the spectator of one's own life, is to escape the suffering of life.
- One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
- We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
Life Quotes from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
- I've always gotten away with more in life than in my dreams.
- I believe everything we do in life is part of a plan. Sometimes the plan goes as intended, and sometimes it doesn't. That's part of the plan.
- Life is our résumé. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?
Life Quotes from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
- Our lives are a blink of a firefly in the night. You're just barely here. You have to make the most of every minute.
- You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it's one thing and you want it far more than anything else.
- The reality is life is a single-player game. You're born alone. You're going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You're gone in three generations, and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nobody cared. It's all single player.
Life Quotes from Beach Read book by Emily Henry
- That is how life feels too often. Like you're doing everything you can to survive only to be sabotaged by something beyond your control, maybe even some darker part of yourself.
- Sometimes life is very hard. Sometimes it demands so much of you that you start losing pieces of yourself as you stretch out to give what the world wants to take.
Life Quotes from The 5 Types of Wealth book by Sahil Bloom
- The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers of persistence, concentration, and insight to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, think deeply.
- Life is so very fragile, but no matter how fragile it is, each day we have a choice of how to live it. Each day is a fresh start, a fresh choice to make.
Life Quotes from The Dark Forest book by Cixin Liu
- It's a wonder to be alive. If you don't understand that, how can you search for anything deeper?
- Life needed smoothness, but it also needed direction. One could not always be returning to the point of origin.
Life Quotes from The World According to Garp book by John Irving
- Life is an X-rated soap opera.
- Life, is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead, an ending occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that's left is memory.
Other Life Quotes
- Life is such a strange thing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves - living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. - The Vegetarian by Han Kang
- Life tends to surface exactly what we need to know, whether we like it or not. Like a compassionate but unyielding teacher, reality doesn't bend or cave to our will. It patiently teaches us in what ways our thinking is not accurate, and those lessons tend to show up across our lives again and again. - Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
- There are certain steps you take in life that you can't easily turn back from. So take them with care. You don't want to make a fool of yourself. - The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
- Life is like this. Crushing is there, and success is there. Never only success. - The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
- There are things in life so valuable that you must risk the pain of losing them for the joy of briefly having them. - Book Lovers by Emily Henry
- Maybe that's what life is, or ends up being most of the time: a rehearsal for a performance that never eventually materializes. - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
- Life is like a sunbeam passing through a crack in a wall. - Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
- Life is so sad. It's so sad, and yet we all do it. We all cling to it; we all search for something to give us solace. - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- If you ask for the true meaning of life and get a story in reply, know that this is the wrong answer. The exact details don't really matter. Any story is wrong, simply for being a story. The universe just does not work like a story. - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- Even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth. - 1984 by George Orwell
- Life was opportunity, a chest of drawers to open, one after the other. - Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
- Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicentre, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns. - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- I'm lucky to be alive. There's no other way to put it. Anything I do beyond that moment is a gift from the universe to me. - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- It was funny how quickly your life could change, how something that seemed so foreign at first quickly became your new normal. - Roommaid by Sariah Wilson
- In life you have to learn to count the good days. You have to tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you. - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- Life is long. Everyone will tell you that it's short, but they're lying. It's a long, long life. - My Friends by Fredrik Backman