Here are ten life quotes from literature. Some of the quotes will inspire you, some will make you think and others will make you smile.
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.” ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive. ~ Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool. ~ Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
“God did not give me my life to throw away.” ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.” ~ A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
The end of religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live. ~ Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together! ~ Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come. ~ A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
Life may as properly be called an art as any other. ~ Amelia by Henry Fielding
