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When you’re young, you squeeze it hard and fast, trying to get all the juice in a hurry. When you’re older, you squeeze it slowly, savouring every drop. Because, one, you don’t know how many drops you have left, and, two, the last drops are the sweetest.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Don Winslow", "slug": "don-winslow", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-winslow" }, "book": { "title": "The Winter of Frankie Machine", "slug": "the-winter-of-frankie-machine", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-winslow/the-winter-of-frankie-machine" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "old age", "slug": "old-age", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Winter_of_Frankie_Machine#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:04" }, { "id": "80126b39-91d9-416d-ac3c-c3140cb9e8f6", "slug": "its-the-saddest", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-riders/its-the-saddest", "text": "\"It's the saddest sight to see, Scully, a man lettin his own life slip through his hands.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Tim Winton", "slug": "tim-winton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton" }, "book": { "title": "The Riders", "slug": "the-riders", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-riders" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 68, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Winton#The_Riders_(1994)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:47" }, { "id": "5fcefbfd-52bd-426c-bb4b-dfcd446599da", "slug": "youve-got-mean", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/cloudstreet/youve-got-mean", "text": "\"You've got mean, Oriel.\"\n\nShe sniffs.\n\n\"It is the war that's done it to you?\"\n\n\"It's all war,\" she said.\n\n\"What is?\"\n\n\"I don't know. Everythin. Raisin a family, keepin yer head above water. Life. War is our natural state.\"\n\n\"Well, struggle maybe,\" said Lester.\n\n\"No, no, it's war.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Tim Winton", "slug": "tim-winton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton" }, "book": { "title": "Cloudstreet", "slug": "cloudstreet", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/cloudstreet" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 233, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "war", "slug": "war", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Winton#Cloudstreet_(1991)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:47" }, { "id": "ccb2a635-e95c-46cf-94c0-d48a08da7476", "slug": "life-is-a-good", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron/when-things-fall-apart/life-is-a-good", "text": "Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Pema Chödrön", "slug": "pema-chodron", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron" }, "book": { "title": "When Things Fall Apart", "slug": "when-things-fall-apart", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pema-chodron/when-things-fall-apart" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "change", "slug": "change", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pema_Ch%C3%B6dr%C3%B6n#When_Things_Fall_Apart:_Heart_Advice_for_Difficult_Times_(1997)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:43" }, { "id": "d973fba5-45c3-4a5e-89cb-9355f17768a9", "slug": "tengo-started-to-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/1q84/tengo-started-to-have", "text": "Tengo started to have doubts about the difference between a person being alive and being dead. Maybe there really wasn’t much of a difference to begin with, he thought. Maybe we just decided, for convenience’s sake, to insist on a difference.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "haruki-murakami", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami" }, "book": { "title": "1Q84", "slug": "1q84", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/1q84" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 772, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/1Q84#Book_3_(October-December)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:39" }, { "id": "463dc415-afb0-4f5d-a286-5c7f228b5c45", "slug": "ive-always-believed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/ive-always-believed", "text": "I’ve always believed that my dad is right about one thing—your life is your solo and whatever song you choose to sing you only get to do it once.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ben Aaronovitch", "slug": "ben-aaronovitch", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch" }, "book": { "title": "The Furthest Station", "slug": "the-furthest-station", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 62, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "music", "slug": "music", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/music" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#The_Furthest_Station_(2017)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:31" }, { "id": "4be43a9f-47bb-4b73-93c5-4aadedf97c31", "slug": "the-day-was", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dee-brown/bury-my-heart-at-wounded-knee/the-day-was", "text": "The day was springlike, the sun quickly burning away the night fog. “My heart tells me I had just as well talk to the clouds and wind,” he said, “but I want to say that life is sweet, love is strong; man fights to save his life; man also kills to win his heart’s desire; that is love. 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You see that plainly when you begin to look at it from the other end. Not time to do very much.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Wyndham", "slug": "john-wyndham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham" }, "book": { "title": "Trouble with Lichen", "slug": "trouble-with-lichen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/trouble-with-lichen" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 41, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wyndham#Trouble_with_Lichen_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:05" }, { "id": "c9b62a05-bd27-4fb5-8534-835ac571b918", "slug": "if-life-werent", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/trouble-with-lichen/if-life-werent", "text": "\"If life weren't so short it would be worth people's while to do more to put the world to rights.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Wyndham", "slug": "john-wyndham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham" }, "book": { "title": "Trouble with Lichen", "slug": "trouble-with-lichen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/trouble-with-lichen" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 80, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wyndham#Trouble_with_Lichen_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:05" }, { "id": "60f00b87-e7bf-4c6c-8100-70b2a7a8f163", "slug": "darling-youre-talking", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/trouble-with-lichen/darling-youre-talking", "text": "\"Darling, you're talking as if all normal-length lives were planned. They aren't, you know. People have to learn how to live them—and by the time they find out, they're nearly gone. No time to remedy mistakes.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Wyndham", "slug": "john-wyndham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham" }, "book": { "title": "Trouble with Lichen", "slug": "trouble-with-lichen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/trouble-with-lichen" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 100, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "mistakes", "slug": "mistakes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mistakes" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wyndham#Trouble_with_Lichen_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:05" }, { "id": "014cc604-8a0f-46cb-b98f-3954f98d2fe7", "slug": "intelligent-life-is-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky/intelligent-life-is-the", "text": "\"Intelligent life is the only thing that gives meaning to the universe. 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High intelligence must be learned from.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Wyndham", "slug": "john-wyndham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham" }, "book": { "title": "Chocky", "slug": "chocky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 142, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "intelligence", "slug": "intelligence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intelligence" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wyndham#Chocky_(1968)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:05" }, { "id": "49df8f00-bbf9-4268-852a-cab0b443b908", "slug": "amazingly-some-of-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir/the-martian/amazingly-some-of-the", "text": "Amazingly, some of the bacteria survived. 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They don’t want to die any more than I do.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Andy Weir", "slug": "andy-weir", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir" }, "book": { "title": "The Martian", "slug": "the-martian", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir/the-martian" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 224, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "survival", "slug": "survival", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/survival" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andy_Weir#The_Martian_(2014)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:00" }, { "id": "f3e8789e-590e-4859-b216-be8d08ffe5b9", "slug": "life-was-elsewhere", "url": 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Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Gemmell", "slug": "david-gemmell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell" }, "book": { "title": "The Swords of Night and Day", "slug": "the-swords-of-night-and-day", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-swords-of-night-and-day" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#The_Swords_of_Night_and_Day", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:55" }, { "id": "f1b23ec2-b221-4d3e-a966-70e34b2e10bb", "slug": "what-do-you", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-king-beyond-the-gate/what-do-you", "text": "What do you mean, why? Is it not obvious? What is life but a betrayal? We start out young, full of hope. The sun is good; the world awaits us. But every passing year shows how small you are, how insignificant against the power of the seasons. Then you age. Your strength fails, and the world laughs at you through the jeers of younger men. And you die. Alone. Unfulfilled. But sometimes ... sometimes there will come a man who is not insignificant. He can change the world, rob the seasons of their power. 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Life is a farce— a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Gemmell", "slug": "david-gemmell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell" }, "book": { "title": "The King Beyond the Gate", "slug": "the-king-beyond-the-gate", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-king-beyond-the-gate" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "cynicism", "slug": "cynicism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cynicism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#The_King_Beyond_the_Gate", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:54" }, { "id": "52e0c021-b183-4165-8941-2f579e03fc95", "slug": "look-around-you", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-king-beyond-the-gate/look-around-you", "text": "Look around you: see the people as they touch and show their love. 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The waters run that we might drink of them, but they are also symbols of the futility of man. They reflect our lives in rushing beauty, birthed in the purity of the mountains. As babes they babble and run, gushing and growing as they mature into strong young rivers. 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Winter is almost upon us. For God's sake, get out there and live.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jeremy Clarkson", "slug": "jeremy-clarkson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson" }, "book": { "title": "Born to be Riled", "slug": "born-to-be-riled", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/born-to-be-riled" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 191, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson#Born_to_be_Riled_(1999)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:05" }, { "id": "cbd310ba-dbce-43c3-9dec-7a9000079cbd", "slug": "fiction-is-unlike", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/odyssey/fiction-is-unlike", "text": "Fiction is unlike reality because it has an end, a conclusion, which allows the characters to stroll happily, or perhaps simply more wisely, out through the climax into the epilogue. 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You ever spend any time among the witches?\"\n\n\"Yes,\" said Grumman. \"And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.\"\n\n\"And this journey we're on? Is that folly or wisdom?\"\n\n\"The greatest wisdom I know.\"\n\n\"Tell me again what your purpose is. You're going to find the bearer of this subtle knife, and what then?\"\n\n\"Tell him what his task is.\"\n\n\"And that's a task that includes protecting Lyra,\" the aeronaut reminded him.\n\n\"It will protect all of us.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Philip Pullman", "slug": "philip-pullman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman" }, "book": { "title": "The Subtle Knife", "slug": "the-subtle-knife", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman/the-subtle-knife" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "stupidity", "slug": "stupidity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity" }, { "name": "wisdom", "slug": "wisdom", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Pullman#The_Subtle_Knife_(1997)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:37" }, { "id": "68a4530d-e857-4d58-a424-0d44710f017c", "slug": "so-she-said", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-hydrogen-sonata/so-she-said", "text": "“So,” she said, “living all this time has been to no purpose, basically.”\n\n“True, but that hardly distinguishes me from anybody else, does it?”\n\n“But shouldn’t it, or there’s no point?”\n\n“No. Living either never has any point, or is always its own point; being a naturally cheery soul, I lean toward the latter. However, just having done more of it than another person doesn’t really make much difference.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Iain M. 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Banks", "slug": "iain-m-banks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks" }, "book": { "title": "Matter", "slug": "matter", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 281, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "conformity", "slug": "conformity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conformity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Matter_(2008)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:19" }, { "id": "57498d79-6fde-415b-92aa-0d5dbbba5206", "slug": "tell-me-suit", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-state-of-the-art/tell-me-suit", "text": "“Tell me, suit, don’t you wonder if it’s all worth it?’\n\n“If what’s all worth what?” it says, and I can hear that condescending tone in its voice again.\n\n“You know; living. Is it worth all the... bother?”\n\n“No.”\n\n“No?”\n\n“No, I don’t ever wonder about it.”\n\n“Why not?” I’m keeping my questions short as we walk, conserving energy and breath.\n\n“I don’t need to wonder about that. It’s not important.”\n\n“Not important?”\n\n“It’s an irrelevant question. We live; that’s enough.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Iain M. 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Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.\n\nIs there any terrestrial paradise where, amidst the whispering of the olive-leaves, people can be with whom they like and have what they like and take their ease in shadows and in coolness? Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people — like the lives of the Ashburnhams, of the Dowells, of the Ruffords — broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who the devil knows?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ford Madox Ford", "slug": "ford-madox-ford", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ford-madox-ford" }, "book": { "title": "The Good Soldier", "slug": "the-good-soldier", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ford-madox-ford/the-good-soldier" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 237, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "happiness", "slug": "happiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ford_Madox_Ford#The_Good_Soldier_(1915)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:12" }, { "id": "c8c24488-5d3a-4098-86b0-e93c0b6f467f", "slug": "most-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/he-she-and-it/most-of-life", "text": "Most of life was bizarre when she stopped to examine it. 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I'd had a life, full of kids and wives and jobs and all the usual stuff, and I'd somehow managed to mislay it. No, you see, that's not right. I knew where my life was, just as you know where the money goes when you piss it away. I hadn't mislaid it at all. I'd spent it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nick Hornby", "slug": "nick-hornby", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby" }, "book": { "title": "A Long Way Down", "slug": "a-long-way-down", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/a-long-way-down" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "loss", "slug": "loss", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nick_Hornby#A_Long_Way_Down_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:06" }, { "id": "d03295a0-6c4b-471b-b8d3-95778e51d233", "slug": "sometimes-life-has", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/witi-ihimaera/the-whale-rider/sometimes-life-has", "text": "Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide. (p63)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Witi Ihimaera", "slug": "witi-ihimaera", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/witi-ihimaera" }, "book": { "title": "The Whale Rider", "slug": "the-whale-rider", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/witi-ihimaera/the-whale-rider" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera#The_Whale_Rider_(1987)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:05" }, { "id": "d4db0d56-e2a9-4b1e-aa33-ab1a7245e854", "slug": "a-big-lump", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat/a-big-lump", "text": "A big lump blocked Mugo’s throat. Something heaved forth; he trembled; he was at the bottom of the pool, but up there, above the pool, ran the earth; life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful; only for a moment; how dared he believe in such a vision, an illusion?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ngugi wa Thiong'o", "slug": "ngugi-wa-thiongo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo" }, "book": { "title": "A Grain of Wheat", "slug": "a-grain-of-wheat", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "beauty", "slug": "beauty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty" }, { "name": "hope", "slug": "hope", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9_wa_Thiong'o#A_Grain_of_Wheat_(1967)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:04" }, { "id": "18a102a6-de25-459e-9ea1-700339a2ce1a", "slug": "life-had-no-colour", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat/life-had-no-colour", "text": "Life had no colour. It was one endless blank sheet, so flat. There were no valleys, streams, no trees–nothing.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ngugi wa Thiong'o", "slug": "ngugi-wa-thiongo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo" }, "book": { "title": "A Grain of Wheat", "slug": "a-grain-of-wheat", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 112, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "emptiness", "slug": "emptiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emptiness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Grain_of_Wheat#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:04" }, { "id": "42708888-0197-4dd0-8a1b-9409e63d8c5c", "slug": "for-life-be-after", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker/dracula/for-life-be-after", "text": "For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Bram Stoker", "slug": "bram-stoker", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker" }, "book": { "title": "Dracula", "slug": "dracula", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker/dracula" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dracula_(novel)#Chapter_VI", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:03" }, { "id": "e1b61a40-6dbd-45e6-85ff-61d176429a84", "slug": "change-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alvin-toffler/future-shock/change-is-not", "text": "Change is not merely necessary to life; it is life. 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You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "V. S. 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This distinction between life and non-life is not correct. Life is made of death, and death is made of life. We have to accept death; it makes life possible. The cells in our body are dying every day, but we never think to organize funerals for them. The death of one cell allows for the birth of another. Life and death are two aspects of the same reality. We must learn to die peacefully so that others may live. This deep meditation brings forth non-fear, non-anger, and non-despair, the strengths we need for our work. With non-fear, even when we see that a problem is huge, we will not burn out. We will know how to make small, steady steps. 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To suffer is not enough. We must also be in touch with the wonders of life. They are within us and all around us, everywhere, anytime.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thich Nhat Hanh", "slug": "thich-nhat-hanh", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh" }, "book": { "title": "Being Peace", "slug": "being-peace", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh#Being_Peace_(1987)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:25" }, { "id": "5935da05-5d35-489d-8d32-411c23aff06d", "slug": "meditation-is-to-be-aware", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace/meditation-is-to-be-aware", "text": "Meditation is to be aware of what is going on-in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each day 40,000 children die of hunger. The superpowers now have more than 50,000 nuclear warheads, enough to destroy our planet many times. Yet the sunrise is beautiful, and the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects. Please do not think we must be solemn in order to meditate. In fact, to meditate well, we have to smile a lot.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thich Nhat Hanh", "slug": "thich-nhat-hanh", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh" }, "book": { "title": "Being Peace", "slug": "being-peace", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "meditation", "slug": "meditation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meditation" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh#Being_Peace_(1987)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:25" }, { "id": "4a062e97-7e5a-497b-a26d-b9726275e596", "slug": "we-tend-to-be-alive", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace/we-tend-to-be-alive", "text": "We tend to be alive in the future, not now. We say, \"Wait until I finish school and get my Ph.D. degree, and then I will be really alive.\" When we have it, and it wasn't easy to get, we say to ourselves, \"I have to wait until I have a job in order to be really alive.\" And then after the job, a car. After the car, a house. We are not capable of being alive in the present moment. We tend to postpone being alive to the future, the distant future, we don't know when. Now is not the moment to be alive. We may never be alive at all in our entire life. 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That is the way the world is.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chaim Potok", "slug": "chaim-potok", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chaim-potok" }, "book": { "title": "The Chosen", "slug": "the-chosen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chaim-potok/the-chosen" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 110, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "chance", "slug": "chance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/chance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chaim_Potok#The_Chosen_(1967)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:08" }, { "id": "76b61e59-6bff-40f6-9102-92fe56694c3f", "slug": "history-as-well", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jared-diamond/collapse/history-as-well", "text": "History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jared Diamond", "slug": "jared-diamond", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jared-diamond" }, "book": { "title": "Collapse", "slug": "collapse", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jared-diamond/collapse" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 349, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "history", "slug": "history", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jared_Diamond#Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_to_Fail_or_Succeed_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:07" }, { "id": "53b1c7be-c27a-44cf-a4e3-2b30fb4e675a", "slug": "human-beings-do-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chaim-potok/the-chosen/human-beings-do-not", "text": "Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing; but the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing; but the man who lives the span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning- that, I do not think you understand yet. A life filled with meaning is worthy of rest. I want to be worthy of rest when I am no longer here.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chaim Potok", "slug": "chaim-potok", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chaim-potok" }, "book": { "title": "The Chosen", "slug": "the-chosen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chaim-potok/the-chosen" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 217, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "meaning of life", "slug": "meaning-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chaim_Potok#The_Chosen_(1967)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:07" }, { "id": "6dd53d33-16fa-402d-ae6b-d36a5dd466ab", "slug": "he-smiled-because", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves/he-smiled-because", "text": "He smiled because he was alive.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen Donaldson", "slug": "stephen-donaldson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson" }, "book": { "title": "The Power That Preserves", "slug": "the-power-that-preserves", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 480, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "joy", "slug": "joy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Donaldson#The_Power_that_Preserves_(1977)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:05" }, { "id": "3ffd97ed-7709-4bca-8e3c-724f95e40650", "slug": "i-must-say", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yann-martel/life-of-pi/i-must-say", "text": "I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. 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There are merely pauses. The end is the arbitrary intervention of the teller, but there can be no finality about the choice. 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The living need our attentions more, he says. Who can argue with that?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sheri S. 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That of being as you were. Or that of being as you are.”\n\nI brought myself up to my knees. That was as far as I could get. The hand that had held the tea cup appeared again, a full cup in it, the steam rising into my nose. I gulped it, interrupting the gulps with sobs. “Pain of being as I am? I don’t understand.”\n\n“But of course you do. The pain of curiosity unsatisfied, of ambition unfulfilled. The pain of love unreturned, of devotion undeserved. The pain of friendship rejected, of leadership ridiculed. The pain of loneliness and labor. Silly child. Did you think living was easy?”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sheri S. 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Nevertheless, there can be but few of us who had never known one of these rare moments of awakening when we see, hear, understand ever so much — everything — in a flash — before we fall back again into our agreeable somnolence.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Conrad", "slug": "joseph-conrad", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad" }, "book": { "title": "Lord Jim", "slug": "lord-jim", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "consciousness", "slug": "consciousness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consciousness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_Jim#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:16" }, { "id": "a8e52c61-bee3-4fef-a4cc-53897ce43423", "slug": "the-last-word", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim/the-last-word", "text": "The last word is not said, — probably shall never be said. Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention? I have given up expecting those last words, whose ring, if they could only be pronounced, would shake both heaven and earth. There is never time to say our last word — the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submissions, revolt. The heaven and the earth must not be shaken, I suppose — at least, not by us who know so many truths about either. My last words about Jim shall be few. I affirm he had achieved greatness; but the thing would be dwarfed in the telling, or rather in the hearing. Frankly, it is not my words that I mistrust but your minds. I could be eloquent were I not afraid you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies. I do not mean to be offensive; it is respectable to have no illusions — and safe — and profitable — and dull. 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Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lorraine Hansberry", "slug": "lorraine-hansberry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry" }, "book": { "title": "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", "slug": "to-be-young-gifted-and-black", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry/to-be-young-gifted-and-black" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 100, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "beauty", "slug": "beauty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry#To_Be_Young,_Gifted_and_Black_(1969)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:15" }, { "id": "80b29290-236d-460b-a1f5-b72c14c38f1c", "slug": "life-was-combat", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-baker/growing-up/life-was-combat", "text": "Life was combat, and victory was not to the lazy, the timid, the slugabed, the drugstore cowboy, the libertine, the mushmouth afraid to tell people exactly what was on his mind whether people liked it or not.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Russell Baker", "slug": "russell-baker", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-baker" }, "book": { "title": "Growing Up", "slug": "growing-up", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-baker/growing-up" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 9, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "courage", "slug": "courage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage" }, { "name": "laziness", "slug": "laziness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laziness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Russell_Baker#Growing_Up_(1982)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:15" }, { "id": "093eefc2-4e8d-428f-8b20-f73d07a0a085", "slug": "i-did-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/heart-of-darkness/i-did-not", "text": "I did not go to join Kurtz there and then. I did not. I remained to dream the nightmare out to the end, and to show my loyalty to Kurtz once more. Destiny. My destiny! Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop of unextinguishable regrets. I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be. I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say. This is the reason why I affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say. He said it. Since I had peeped over the edge myself, I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness. He had summed up — he had judged. 'The horror!' He was a remarkable man. After all, this was the expression of some sort of belief; it had candor, it had conviction, it had a vibrating note of revolt in its whisper, it had the appalling face of a glimpsed truth — the strange commingling of desire and hate.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Conrad", "slug": "joseph-conrad", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad" }, "book": { "title": "Heart of Darkness", "slug": "heart-of-darkness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/heart-of-darkness" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "fate", "slug": "fate", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness#Part_III", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:13" }, { "id": "e0f5e14e-754a-431c-90f4-e4ce4aca0199", "slug": "tomas-stopped-and", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/imago/tomas-stopped-and", "text": "Tomas stopped and looked at the three Oankali. “Do you believe in spirits?”\n\n“We believe in life,” Ahajas said.\n\n“Life after death?”\n\nAhajas smoothed her tentacles briefly in agreement. “When I’m dead,” she said, “I will nourish other life.”\n\n“But I mean—”\n\n“If I died on a lifeless world, a world that could sustain some form of life if it were tenacious enough, organelles within each cell of my body would survive and evolve. In perhaps a thousand million years, that world would be as full of life as this one.”\n\n“...it would?”\n\n“Yes. Our ancestors have seeded a great many barren worlds that way. Nothing is more tenacious than the life we are made of. A world of life from apparent death, from dissolution. That’s what we believe in.”\n\n“Nothing more?”\n\nAhajas became smooth enough with amusement to reflect firelight. “No, Lelka. Nothing more.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Octavia E. Butler", "slug": "octavia-e-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler" }, "book": { "title": "Imago", "slug": "imago", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/imago" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 662, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "faith", "slug": "faith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler#Imago_(1989)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:10" }, { "id": "b666b109-03f7-42b5-9b90-0f4f8dc5a993", "slug": "life-was-treasure", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/imago/life-was-treasure", "text": "Life was treasure. The only treasure.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Octavia E. Butler", "slug": "octavia-e-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler" }, "book": { "title": "Imago", "slug": "imago", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/imago" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 564, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler#Imago_(1989)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:10" }, { "id": "5764b454-7c66-45b3-9d10-db2856d750fb", "slug": "what-will-they", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/wild-seed/what-will-they", "text": "“What will they do when they have only the herbs” he asked her.\n\n“Live or die as best they can,” she said. “Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Octavia E. 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Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Toni Morrison", "slug": "toni-morrison", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison" }, "book": { "title": "Sula", "slug": "sula", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/sula" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison#Sula_(1973)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:00" }, { "id": "d04d3a09-bc6a-4946-8c45-59a4d0d7995f", "slug": "but-people-cant", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin/giovannis-room/but-people-cant", "text": "But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "James Baldwin", "slug": "james-baldwin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin" }, "book": { "title": "Giovanni's Room", "slug": "giovannis-room", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin/giovannis-room" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 4, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Baldwin#Giovanni's_Room_(1956)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:58" }, { "id": "6b724413-403b-4a52-a6ee-de919fe3a7f8", "slug": "how-wonderful-to-be-alive", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/boris-pasternak/doctor-zhivago/how-wonderful-to-be-alive", "text": "\"How wonderful to be alive,\" he thought. \"But why does it always hurt?\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Boris Pasternak", "slug": "boris-pasternak", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/boris-pasternak" }, "book": { "title": "Doctor Zhivago", "slug": "doctor-zhivago", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/boris-pasternak/doctor-zhivago" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak#Doctor_Zhivago_(1957)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:57" }, { "id": "18a17a97-fe5b-4dad-8f65-1ae112a41c4e", "slug": "they-dont-mean", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/they-dont-mean", "text": "They don’t mean anything, you know. They hurt, but they’re only feelings. They don’t draw blood or make it difficult for you to breathe. They’re all in the mind. 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Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. 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To not make mistakes\" Brandy says, \"I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chuck Palahniuk", "slug": "chuck-palahniuk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk" }, "book": { "title": "Invisible Monsters", "slug": "invisible-monsters", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "mistakes", "slug": "mistakes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mistakes" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Invisible_Monsters#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:48" }, { "id": "37970c3a-bab0-4ecc-8b92-3620540e4da6", "slug": "life-is-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/glory-season/life-is-the", "text": "“Life is the continuation of existence, yet no thing endures. We are all patterns, seeking to propagate. Patterns which bring other patterns into being, then vanish, as if we’ve never been.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Brin", "slug": "david-brin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin" }, "book": { "title": "Glory Season", "slug": "glory-season", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/glory-season" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 281, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Brin#Glory_Season_(1993)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:45" }, { "id": "eb70144e-d0c0-44a6-83bc-a417859c57a7", "slug": "to-say-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/to-say-that", "text": "To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. The real arena is corrupt and bloody. Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Saul Alinsky", "slug": "saul-alinsky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky" }, "book": { "title": "Rules for Radicals", "slug": "rules-for-radicals", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 24, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "corruption", "slug": "corruption", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky#Rules_for_Radicals:_A_Practical_Primer_for_Realistic_Radicals_(1971)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:42" }, { "id": "dc637b9d-3011-40d1-8b51-2ac2499fb99c", "slug": "in-the-end", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates/in-the-end", "text": "\"In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke. The soul is its punchline.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Tom Robbins", "slug": "tom-robbins", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins" }, "book": { "title": "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates", "slug": "fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "soul", "slug": "soul", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/soul" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Robbins#Fierce_Invalids_Home_from_Hot_Climates_(2000)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:39" }, { "id": "bd9140ec-7351-4f3e-b5a4-942562b2af48", "slug": "theres-birth-theres", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates/theres-birth-theres", "text": "There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Tom Robbins", "slug": "tom-robbins", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins" }, "book": { "title": "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates", "slug": "fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Robbins#Fierce_Invalids_Home_from_Hot_Climates_(2000)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:39" }, { "id": "c161bd57-ca51-450b-b77e-0a8d64582e36", "slug": "to-emphasize-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/to-emphasize-the", "text": "...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Tom Robbins", "slug": "tom-robbins", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins" }, "book": { "title": "Skinny Legs and All", "slug": "skinny-legs-and-all", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "religion", "slug": "religion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Robbins#Skinny_Legs_and_All_(1990)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:38" }, { "id": "2e5b9b1b-5bf7-4a97-8ef3-3de3d659e079", "slug": "for-what-is-a-flower", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/for-what-is-a-flower", "text": "For what is a flower but life’s expressed passion for itself. 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Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. 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It was never too late to have a good life. 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That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It can't just stop happening.\" (p. 43)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Terry Pratchett", "slug": "terry-pratchett", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett" }, "book": { "title": "Reaper Man", "slug": "reaper-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/reaper-man" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reaper_Man#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:56" }, { "id": "84d5df2d-f512-40d2-9e82-8b427f192a73", "slug": "everything-that-exists", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/reaper-man/everything-that-exists", "text": "Everything that exists, yearns to live. That's what the cycle of life is all about. That's the engine that drives the great biological pumps of evolution. Everything tries to inch its way up the tree, clawing or tentacling or sliming its way up to the next niche until it gets to the very top—which, on the whole, never seems to have been worth all that effort. 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But wasn't that what living was all about? 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Instead of inventing and telling stories, I’m going to make my life a more interesting story.\" (p. 177)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Douglas Coupland", "slug": "douglas-coupland", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland" }, "book": { "title": "Generation A", "slug": "generation-a", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/generation-a" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "boredom", "slug": "boredom", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/boredom" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Coupland#Generation_A_(2009)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:27" }, { "id": "68221ecb-efcb-4896-bd2c-ecc3ca2e0017", "slug": "it-is-mistaken", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-miller/the-crucible/it-is-mistaken", "text": "It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. I beg you, woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie. Quail not before God's judgment in this, for it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Arthur Miller", "slug": "arthur-miller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-miller" }, "book": { "title": "The Crucible", "slug": "the-crucible", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-miller/the-crucible" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller#The_Crucible_(1953)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:24" }, { "id": "9a500505-1cbd-4e27-a7b0-6497266a6625", "slug": "ive-always-made", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-miller/death-of-a-salesman/ive-always-made", "text": "I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Arthur Miller", "slug": "arthur-miller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-miller" }, "book": { "title": "Death of a Salesman", "slug": "death-of-a-salesman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-miller/death-of-a-salesman" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "loss", "slug": "loss", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller#Death_of_a_Salesman_(1949)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:23" }, { "id": "8e97aa6b-4d73-4602-aef7-f162796cbbab", "slug": "ive-lived-out", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-miller/tropic-of-cancer/ive-lived-out", "text": "I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Henry Miller", "slug": "henry-miller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-miller" }, "book": { "title": "Tropic of Cancer", "slug": "tropic-of-cancer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-miller/tropic-of-cancer" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tropic_of_Cancer#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:17" }, { "id": "0ba05aea-bb99-4da6-88fb-5fd465f74fee", "slug": "there-was-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/barbary-shore/there-was-that", "text": "There was that law of life so cruel and so just which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Norman Mailer", "slug": "norman-mailer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer" }, "book": { "title": "Barbary Shore", "slug": "barbary-shore", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/barbary-shore" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "change", "slug": "change", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer#Barbary_Shore_(1951)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:13" }, { "id": "b6593449-4db3-4cb2-84ff-8a4b4cfa2e84", "slug": "theres-something-to-be-said", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/oryx-and-crake/theres-something-to-be-said", "text": "“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Margaret Atwood", "slug": "margaret-atwood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood" }, "book": { "title": "Oryx and Crake", "slug": "oryx-and-crake", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/oryx-and-crake" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "hunger", "slug": "hunger", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hunger" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood#Oryx_and_Crake_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:11" }, { "id": "ed5c5756-7d7b-4a18-bddb-4a1c37c3c773", "slug": "i-regret-nothing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/i-regret-nothing", "text": "\"I regret nothing. 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And you eat all the ones you like,and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. 'Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK.' Life is a box of cookies.\"\n\n\"I suppose you could call it a philosophy.\"\n\n\"It's true, though. I've learned it from experience.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "haruki-murakami", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami" }, "book": { "title": "Norwegian Wood", "slug": "norwegian-wood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norwegian_Wood_(novel)#Chapter_Ten", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:03" }, { "id": "510f71d4-f1ef-4212-bc5a-106d97778197", "slug": "whats-wrong-with", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-lathe-of-heaven/whats-wrong-with", "text": "What's wrong with changing things? 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Every time you don't crash your car, you reenlist.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chuck Palahniuk", "slug": "chuck-palahniuk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk" }, "book": { "title": "Survivor", "slug": "survivor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "suicide", "slug": "suicide", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suicide" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Survivor_(Palahniuk_novel)#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:19" }, { "id": "335cd030-925f-4594-a6a2-0ef91f4447fb", "slug": "more-and-more", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor/more-and-more", "text": "More and more everything in my life was a fix for an earlier fix for an earlier fix until I forget what the original problem was.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chuck Palahniuk", "slug": "chuck-palahniuk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk" }, "book": { "title": "Survivor", "slug": "survivor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Survivor_(Palahniuk_novel)#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:19" }, { "id": "d26ca193-4484-4039-a6ee-0b6203b5f088", "slug": "achieving-life-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged/achieving-life-is-not", "text": "\"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "Atlas Shrugged", "slug": "atlas-shrugged", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 1024, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged#Chapter_Seven:_%22This_is_John_Galt_Speaking%22", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:52" }, { "id": "8142a848-323d-4bc3-a69d-0b8127910506", "slug": "here-we-trade", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged/here-we-trade", "text": "\"Here, we trade achievements, not failures—values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together. Wealth, Dagny? What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "Atlas Shrugged", "slug": "atlas-shrugged", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 722, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "change", "slug": "change", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged#Chapter_One:_Atlantis", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:52" }, { "id": "16f1f082-6a51-4256-a243-88f1cf84903c", "slug": "you-seek-escape", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged/you-seek-escape", "text": "\"You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "Atlas Shrugged", "slug": "atlas-shrugged", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 1024, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "happiness", "slug": "happiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged#Chapter_Seven:_%22This_is_John_Galt_Speaking%22", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:52" }, { "id": "bf21c3d7-14ff-4e0a-978e-59c3551317aa", "slug": "how-mutable-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein/how-mutable-are", "text": "How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mary Shelley", "slug": "mary-shelley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley" }, "book": { "title": "Frankenstein", "slug": "frankenstein", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "emotions", "slug": "emotions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(novel)#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:47" }, { "id": "269c3ead-0bd8-4092-b88f-54f71bbffe20", "slug": "i-think-its", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo/white-noise/i-think-its", "text": "“I think it’s a mistake to lose one’s sense of death, even one’s fear of death. Isn’t death the boundary we need? Doesn’t it give precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or a limit.” – Winnie", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Don DeLillo", "slug": "don-delillo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo" }, "book": { "title": "White Noise", "slug": "white-noise", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo/white-noise" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/White_Noise_(novel)#Winnie", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:38" }, { "id": "e268fe8a-5601-4043-bc66-a8fe2b8c5ba7", "slug": "preserving-seeks-to-secure", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind/preserving-seeks-to-secure", "text": "Preserving seeks to secure the life that already is; safeguarding secures and reproduces the conditions of becoming, of living, of futurity, where the content of that life, that living, can be neither prescribed nor predicted, and where self-determination emerges as a potential.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Judith Butler", "slug": "judith-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler" }, "book": { "title": "The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind", "slug": "the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 94, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Judith_Butler#Chapter_Two", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:35" }, { "id": "54f3a533-7075-4a36-8326-020c50365549", "slug": "to-say-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind/to-say-that", "text": "To say that a life is grievable is to claim that a life, even before it is lost, is, or will be, worthy of being grieved on the occasion of its loss; the life has value in relation to mortality. One treats a person differently if one brings the sense of the grievability of the other to one’s ethical bearing toward the other. If an other’s loss would register as a loss, would be marked and mourned, and if the prospect of loss is feared, and precautions are thus taken to safeguard that life from harm or destruction, then our very ability to value and safeguard a life depends upon an ongoing sense of its grievability—the conjectured future of a life as an indefinite potential that would be mourned were it cut short or lost.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Judith Butler", "slug": "judith-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler" }, "book": { "title": "The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind", "slug": "the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 75, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "grief", "slug": "grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Judith_Butler#Chapter_Two", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:35" }, { "id": "2d4c8d98-5ef9-4239-9867-aa84ce2d739e", "slug": "to-subdue-destruction", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind/to-subdue-destruction", "text": "To subdue destruction is one of the most important affirmations of which we are capable in this world. It is the affirmation of this life, bound up with yours, and with the realm of the living: an affirmation caught up with a potential for destruction and its countervailing force.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Judith Butler", "slug": "judith-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler" }, "book": { "title": "The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind", "slug": "the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 65, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Judith_Butler#Chapter_One", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:35" }, { "id": "0f415284-71d9-4c11-a303-b3a28ebdcbe1", "slug": "lives-matter-in-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind/lives-matter-in-the", "text": "Lives matter in the sense that they assume physical form within the sphere of appearance; lives matter because they are to be valued equally.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Judith Butler", "slug": "judith-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler" }, "book": { "title": "The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind", "slug": "the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/judith-butler/the-force-of-nonviolence-an-ethico-political-bind" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 12, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "equality", "slug": "equality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Judith_Butler#Introduction", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:35" }, { "id": "bbf28876-bf5c-4f0d-b70f-1337440907f4", "slug": "maybe-nina-wouldnt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/lightning/maybe-nina-wouldnt", "text": "\"Maybe Nina wouldn't have died if I hadn't moved in with them and drawn Sheener after me, but I can't feel guilty about that. I tried hard to be a good foster daughter to them, and they were happy with me. What happened was that life dropped a big custard pie on us, and that's not my fault; you can never see the custard pies coming. It's not good slapstick if you see the pie coming.\"\n\n\"Custard pie?\" he asked, perplexed. \"You see life as a slapstick comedy? Like the Three Stooges?\"\n\n\"Partly.\"\n\n\"Life is just a joke then?\"\n\n\"No. Life is serious and a joke at the same time.\"\n\n\"But how can that be?\"\n\n\"If you don't know,\" she said, \"maybe I should be the one asking the questions here.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Dean Koontz", "slug": "dean-koontz", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz" }, "book": { "title": "Lightning", "slug": "lightning", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/lightning" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dean_Koontz#Lightning_(1988)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:23" }, { "id": "ac2bd0fb-74b4-444c-ade1-4e108550308a", "slug": "how-can-you", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/lightning/how-can-you", "text": "How can you hope to win against goddamn time travelers? It's like playing blackjack when the dealer is God. … Come to think of it, all of life is a blackjack game with God as the dealer, isn't it? So this is no worse.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Dean Koontz", "slug": "dean-koontz", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz" }, "book": { "title": "Lightning", "slug": "lightning", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/lightning" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dean_Koontz#Lightning_(1988)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:23" }, { "id": "d63c5086-a626-45a5-94f6-44e22888a410", "slug": "its-like-at-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach/one/its-like-at-the", "text": "It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Richard Bach", "slug": "richard-bach", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach" }, "book": { "title": "One", "slug": "one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach/one" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Bach#One_(1988)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:19" }, { "id": "e821fb00-286c-4361-8f58-9f9dbbab10db", "slug": "do-you-know", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/catch-22/do-you-know", "text": "\"Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?\" Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. \"This long.\" He snapped his fingers. \"A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man.\"\n\n\"Old?\" asked Clevinger with surprise. \"What are you talking about?\"\n\n\"Old.\"\n\n\"I'm not old.\"\n\n\"You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow down?\" Dunbar was almost angry when he finished.\n\n\"Well, maybe it is true,\" Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. \"Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?\"\n\n\"I do,\" Dunbar told him.\n\n\"Why?\" Clevinger asked.\n\n\"What else is there?\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Heller", "slug": "joseph-heller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller" }, "book": { "title": "Catch-22", "slug": "catch-22", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/catch-22" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller#Catch-22_(1961)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:11" }, { "id": "807511cf-e145-4771-a6d6-3980ea5752d6", "slug": "the-important-business", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/the-important-business", "text": "The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Joubert", "slug": "joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert" }, "book": { "title": "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert", "slug": "the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert#The_Notebooks_of_Joseph_Joubert_(1883)", 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He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit — no matter how often he's reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley... Very few toads in this world are Prince Charmings in disguise. Most are simply toads... and they are going to stay that way... Toads don't make laws or change any basic structures, but one or two rooty insights can work powerful changes in the way they get through life. A toad who believes he got a raw deal before he even knew who was dealing will usually be sympathetic to the mean, vindictive ignorance that colors the Hell's Angels' view of humanity. There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Hunter S. 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A single life was not enough…", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Vance", "slug": "jack-vance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance" }, "book": { "title": "Wyst: Alastor 1716", "slug": "wyst-alastor-1716", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/wyst-alastor-1716" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 307, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "curiosity", "slug": "curiosity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/curiosity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#Wyst:_Alastor_1716_(1978)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:02" }, { "id": "3b4d7c09-4aad-4a49-964b-2fd35b380a95", "slug": "never-neglect-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-brave-free-men/never-neglect-the", "text": "Never neglect the wonder of conscious existence, which too soon comes to an end!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Vance", "slug": "jack-vance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance" }, "book": { "title": "The Brave Free Men", "slug": "the-brave-free-men", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-brave-free-men" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 98, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "consciousness", "slug": "consciousness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consciousness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Brave_Free_Men_(1973%3B_serialized_1972)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:00" }, { "id": "504ba423-26d2-49fd-be21-b499ac0f4629", "slug": "an-idea-of-great", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/maske-thaery/an-idea-of-great", "text": "An idea of great merit! While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Vance", "slug": "jack-vance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance" }, "book": { "title": "Maske: Thaery", "slug": "maske-thaery", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/maske-thaery" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 209, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "pleasure", "slug": "pleasure", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pleasure" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#Maske:_Thaery_(1976)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:56" }, { "id": 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I have come down with life. I was a wisp of undifferentiated nothingness, and then a little peephole opened quite suddenly. Light and sound poured in. Voices began to describe me and my surroundings. 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For we matter not and it must not matter to us whether we live or die, which is to be as our brothers will it. But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. 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I learned that, Kerin, without moiling over books. But life is a fine ardent spectacle; and I have loved the actors in it: and I have loved their youth and high-heartedness, and their ungrounded faiths, and their queer dreams, my Kerin, about their own importance and about the greatness of the destiny that awaited them, — while you were piddling after, of all things, the truth!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "James Branch Cabell", "slug": "james-branch-cabell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-branch-cabell" }, "book": { "title": "The Silver Stallion", "slug": "the-silver-stallion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-branch-cabell/the-silver-stallion" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "truth", "slug": "truth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell#The_Silver_Stallion_(1926)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:50" }, { "id": "96486c2d-6283-418b-b803-af02596785b0", "slug": "i-shall-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-branch-cabell/figures-of-earth/i-shall-not", "text": "I shall not ever return to you, my pigs, because, at worst, to die valorously is better than to sleep out one's youth in the sun. A man has but one life. It is his all. Therefore I now depart from you, my pigs, to win me a fine wife and much wealth and leisure wherein to discharge my geas. And when my geas is lifted I shall not come back to you, my pigs, but I shall travel everywhither, and into the last limits of earth, so that I may see the ends of this world and may judge them while my life endures. For after that, they say, I judge not, but am judged: and a man whose life has gone out of him, my pigs, is not even good bacon.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "James Branch Cabell", "slug": "james-branch-cabell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-branch-cabell" }, "book": { "title": "Figures of Earth", "slug": "figures-of-earth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-branch-cabell/figures-of-earth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "courage", "slug": "courage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell#Figures_of_Earth_(1921)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:50" }, { "id": "753279a7-b9f2-48da-9de0-dcdedb9a1279", "slug": "life-is-very", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-branch-cabell/the-silver-stallion/life-is-very", "text": "Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "James Branch Cabell", "slug": "james-branch-cabell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-branch-cabell" }, "book": { "title": "The Silver Stallion", "slug": "the-silver-stallion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-branch-cabell/the-silver-stallion" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "miracles", "slug": "miracles", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/miracles" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell#The_Silver_Stallion_(1926)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:50" }, { "id": "beb43480-8b77-4456-a03e-4f0cee001539", "slug": "i-have-been", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-branch-cabell/the-cream-of-the-jest/i-have-been", "text": "I have been telling you, from alpha to omega, what is the one great thing the sigil taught me — that everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith. 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If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "slug": "arthur-conan-doyle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle" }, "book": { "title": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "slug": "the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 190, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "literature", "slug": "literature", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/literature" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes#A_Case_of_Identity", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:40" }, { "id": "4935a22d-e210-4fcd-8cac-78d19d3bef1a", "slug": "ah-life-is-a-gate", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/big-sur/ah-life-is-a-gate", "text": "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH...", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Kerouac", "slug": "jack-kerouac", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac" }, "book": { "title": "Big Sur", "slug": "big-sur", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/big-sur" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "joy", "slug": "joy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac#Big_Sur_(1962)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:32" }, { "id": "d8e66e83-76fd-430e-a88b-e6f7fc1e6202", "slug": "life-is-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road/life-is-life", "text": "Life is life, and kind is kind.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Kerouac", "slug": "jack-kerouac", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac" }, "book": { "title": "On the Road", "slug": "on-the-road", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "kindness", "slug": "kindness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/On_the_Road#Part_two", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:30" }, { "id": "cab7373d-fdb3-45c8-add0-c9361ed1f102", "slug": "our-battered-suitcases", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road/our-battered-suitcases", "text": "Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. 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It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. 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Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Virginia Woolf", "slug": "virginia-woolf", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf" }, "book": { "title": "A Room of One's Own", "slug": "a-room-of-ones-own", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 43, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "literature", "slug": "literature", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/literature" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#A_Room_of_One's_Own_(1929)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:16" }, { "id": "434505c1-3716-418f-9610-4b8436fb27d5", "slug": "life-for-both", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own/life-for-both", "text": "Life for both sexes — and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement — is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to one self. 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There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor. There was always a woman dying of cancer even here. 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The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday, the accent falls differently from of old; the moment of importance came not here but there; so that, if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it. Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. 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It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay form organism to organism.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "Dune", "slug": "dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "ecology", "slug": "ecology", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ecology" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune:_House_Corrino_(2001)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:49" }, { "id": "053aa560-b4bb-4b93-8abc-65c2eaba0483", "slug": "life-all-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/life-all-life", "text": "Life — all life — is in the service of life", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "Dune", "slug": "dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Appendices", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:49" }, { "id": "01713114-6e09-4ff8-bf81-dad2104a82ad", "slug": "much-that-was", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/much-that-was", "text": "Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "Dune", "slug": "dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "religion", "slug": "religion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion" }, { "name": "joy", "slug": "joy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Appendices", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:49" }, { "id": "12099d88-b2d4-4e4c-aaf0-43be7737a2f7", "slug": "the-mystery-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/the-mystery-of-life", "text": "The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "Dune", "slug": "dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "secrets", "slug": "secrets", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Book_1:_Dune", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:48" }, { "id": "c57fda36-edce-4a70-8d75-8911740cd11b", "slug": "but-my-dear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/truman-capote/other-voices-other-rooms/but-my-dear", "text": "But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Truman Capote", "slug": "truman-capote", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/truman-capote" }, "book": { "title": "Other Voices, Other Rooms", "slug": "other-voices-other-rooms", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/truman-capote/other-voices-other-rooms" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Truman_Capote#Other_Voices,_Other_Rooms_(1948)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:47" }, { "id": "b22d3990-087d-470d-999d-57529dbd4ac0", "slug": "oh-grassy-glades", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/oh-grassy-glades", "text": "Oh, grassy glades! oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life—in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them. Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause:—through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom), then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If. But once gone through, we trace the round again; and are infants, boys, and men, and Ifs eternally. Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where is the foundling's father hidden? Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Herman Melville", "slug": "herman-melville", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville" }, "book": { "title": "Moby-Dick", "slug": "moby-dick", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 545, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "soul", "slug": "soul", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/soul" }, { "name": "doubt", "slug": "doubt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/doubt" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#The_Gilder_(114)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:42" }, { "id": "bcba5ea2-042c-4570-9af4-b8af31967867", "slug": "from-storm-to-storm", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/from-storm-to-storm", "text": "From storm to storm! So be it, then. Born in throes, 'tis fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Herman Melville", "slug": "herman-melville", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville" }, "book": { "title": "Moby-Dick", "slug": "moby-dick", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 480, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#The_Doubloon_(99)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:41" }, { "id": "a67d4057-8855-4766-8b37-d98f63a09d67", "slug": "all-men-live", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/all-men-live", "text": "All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Herman Melville", "slug": "herman-melville", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville" }, "book": { "title": "Moby-Dick", "slug": "moby-dick", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 315, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#The_Line_(60)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:41" }, { "id": "6f1d2a5b-8208-402e-a64d-ad7b19d86d9d", "slug": "there-are-certain", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/there-are-certain", "text": "There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Herman Melville", "slug": "herman-melville", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville" }, "book": { "title": "Moby-Dick", "slug": "moby-dick", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 252, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#The_Hyena_(49)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:41" }, { "id": "612de175-6572-4498-a52b-e859a9204711", "slug": "look-you-doubloon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/look-you-doubloon", "text": "Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter; and now I'll read it off, straight out of the book. Come, Almanack! To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram—lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull—he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins—that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path—he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the Virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales—happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when whang come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Water-bearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and to wind up with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep. There's a sermon now, writ in high heaven, and the sun goes through it every year, and yet comes out of it all alive and hearty.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Herman Melville", "slug": "herman-melville", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville" }, "book": { "title": "Moby-Dick", "slug": "moby-dick", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 481, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#The_Doubloon_(99)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:41" }, { "id": "f4491498-30f8-4489-8fd5-259ac3166091", "slug": "that-one-most", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/that-one-most", "text": "That one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Herman Melville", "slug": "herman-melville", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville" }, "book": { "title": "Moby-Dick", "slug": "moby-dick", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 66, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "work", "slug": "work", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#Wheelbarrow_(13)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:40" }, { "id": "8c657f04-3319-4fd0-a445-130403fd1845", "slug": "why-did-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/why-did-the", "text": "Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Herman Melville", "slug": "herman-melville", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville" }, "book": { "title": "Moby-Dick", "slug": "moby-dick", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 3, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "the sea", "slug": "the-sea", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-sea" }, { "name": "mythology", "slug": "mythology", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mythology" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#Loomings_(1)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:39" }, { "id": "6669d8b7-afcf-487a-9e3f-8c4099b378dd", "slug": "the-whole-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/the-whole-life", "text": "The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "slug": "alexis-de-tocqueville", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville" }, "book": { "title": "Democracy in America", "slug": "democracy-in-america", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "America", "slug": "america", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Democracy_in_America,_Volume_I_(1835)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:38" }, { "id": "ad65cb19-8586-4cd1-8f8c-aa05f42e404d", "slug": "the-second-law", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-m-pirsig/lila/the-second-law", "text": "The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that all energy systems run down like a clock and never rewind themselves. But life not only 'runs up,' converting low energy sea-water, sunlight and air into high-energy chemicals, it keeps multiplying itself into more and better clocks that keep 'running up' faster and faster. Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive? If we leave a chemistry professor out on a rock in the sun long enough the forces of nature will convert him into simple compounds of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, and small amounts of other minerals. It's a one-way reaction. No matter what kind of chemistry professor we use and no matter what process we use we can't turn these compounds back into a chemistry professor. Chemistry professors are unstable mixtures of predominantly unstable compounds which, in the exclusive presence of the sun's heat, decay irreversibly into simpler organic and inorganic compounds. That's a scientific fact. The question is: Then why does nature reverse this process? What on earth causes the inorganic compounds to go the other way? It isn't the sun's energy. We just saw what the sun's energy did. It has to be something else. What is it?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robert M. 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The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen W. 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This says that life is not guaranteed, that life requires something special, something improbable.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Carl Sagan", "slug": "carl-sagan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan" }, "book": { "title": "The Varieties of Scientific Experience", "slug": "the-varieties-of-scientific-experience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/the-varieties-of-scientific-experience" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "the universe", "slug": "the-universe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-universe" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#The_Varieties_of_Scientific_Experience:_A_Personal_View_of_the_Search_for_God_(2006)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:30" }, { "id": "02f6211a-b9bb-4d3d-99f5-76a701b809aa", "slug": "when-you-look", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/the-varieties-of-scientific-experience/when-you-look", "text": "When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. ...It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules. ...with trivial exceptions, all organisms on Earth use... an enzyme, to control the rate and direction of the chemistry of life. ...a nucleic acid to encode the hereditary information ...the identical code book for translating nucleic acid language into protein language. ...At the molecular level, we are all virtually identical.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Carl Sagan", "slug": "carl-sagan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan" }, "book": { "title": "The Varieties of Scientific Experience", "slug": "the-varieties-of-scientific-experience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/the-varieties-of-scientific-experience" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "evolution", "slug": "evolution", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evolution" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#The_Varieties_of_Scientific_Experience:_A_Personal_View_of_the_Search_for_God_(2006)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:29" }, { "id": "0b33432a-feab-42b1-bca6-021a953d309d", "slug": "that-it-will", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/contact/that-it-will", "text": "That it will never come again\n\nIs what makes life so sweet.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Carl Sagan", "slug": "carl-sagan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan" }, "book": { "title": "Contact", "slug": "contact", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/contact" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 393, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Contact_(1985)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:28" }, { "id": "c314f2a6-a4bb-4872-8c6e-449e8f4a005a", "slug": "every-one-of", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/cosmos/every-one-of", "text": "Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Carl Sagan", "slug": "carl-sagan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan" }, "book": { "title": "Cosmos", "slug": "cosmos", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/cosmos" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 339, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "the universe", "slug": "the-universe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-universe" }, { "name": "tolerance", "slug": "tolerance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tolerance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Cosmos_(1980)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:27" }, { "id": "edaa825e-91e5-4eb1-80eb-4d1f7f2f922c", "slug": "years-ago-i-interviewed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/oprah-winfrey/the-path-made-clear/years-ago-i-interviewed", "text": "Years ago, I interviewed a grieving mother whose adult son had died after a long illness. You could have heard a pin drop in the studio when she so beautifully told the story of their final moment together. The mother had climbed into bed with her son. She could barely hear him, but her head was on his chest. As he took his last breath, he whispered, \"Oh Mom, it is all so simple. It's so simple, Mom.\" He then closed his eyes and died. I got chills when I heard that. I realized then, just as it resonates with me now: We allow life to get so complicated- when it's really so very simple. From that day forward I resolved to continually ask myself, How am I making things more difficult than they need to be? Your answer to that same question is the next step in your path. It's that simple. Imagine what lies just around the bend. Can you see it? I can. Love, Oprah.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Oprah Winfrey", "slug": "oprah-winfrey", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/oprah-winfrey" }, "book": { "title": "The Path Made Clear", "slug": "the-path-made-clear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/oprah-winfrey/the-path-made-clear" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 189, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "simplicity", "slug": "simplicity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/simplicity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey#The_Path_Made_Clear:_Discovering_Your_Life's_Direction_and_Purpose_(2019)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:18" }, { "id": "eeb4bf8f-86a3-4566-bf54-535bd3a5cf4c", "slug": "janie-saw-her", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/their-eyes-were-watching-god/janie-saw-her", "text": "Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. 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Yo’ papa and yo’ mama and nobody else can’t tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Zora Neale Hurston", "slug": "zora-neale-hurston", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston" }, "book": { "title": "Their Eyes Were Watching God", "slug": "their-eyes-were-watching-god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/their-eyes-were-watching-god" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "experience", "slug": "experience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/experience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston#Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God_(1937)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:17" }, { "id": "40202305-4fcd-410e-843f-4a2c5bd99eba", "slug": "life-is-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/trigger-warning-short-fictions-and-disturbances/life-is-life", "text": "Life is life, and it is infinitely better than the alternative, or so we presume, for nobody returns to dispute it. 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Remember?\"\n\n\"You're not dead\" Laura said \"But I'm not sure you're alive, either. Not really.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Neil Gaiman", "slug": "neil-gaiman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman" }, "book": { "title": "American Gods", "slug": "american-gods", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/American_Gods#Chapter_12", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:10" }, { "id": "4455fcfe-6507-489e-b1f5-a323dd738e13", "slug": "you-people-talk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods/you-people-talk", "text": "\"You people talk about the living and the dead as if they were two mutually exclusive categories. As if you cannot have a river that is also a road, or a song that is also a color.\"\n\n\"You can't,\" said Shadow. \"Can you?\" The echoes whispered his words back at him from across the pool.\n\n\"What you have to remember,\" said Mr. Ibis, testily, \"is that life and death are different sides of the same coin. Like the heads and tails of a quarter.\"\n\n\"And if I had a double-headed quarter?\"\n\n\"You don't. They only belong to fools, and gods.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Neil Gaiman", "slug": "neil-gaiman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman" }, "book": { "title": "American Gods", "slug": "american-gods", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/American_Gods#Chapter_16", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:10" }, { "id": "b377bd9e-3b15-4dc2-bc53-c5dae3943606", "slug": "tristran-sat-at-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/tristran-sat-at-the", "text": "Tristran sat at the top of the spire of cloud and wondered why none of the heroes of the penny dreadfuls he used to read so avidly were ever hungry. His stomach rumbled, and his hand hurt him so.\n\nAdventures are all very well in their place, he thought, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.\n\nStill, he was alive, and the wind was in his hair, and the cloud was scudding through the sky like a galleon at full sail. Looking out over the world from above, he could never remember feeling so alive as he did at that moment. There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.\n\nHe understood that he was, in some way, above his problems, just as he was above the world.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Neil Gaiman", "slug": "neil-gaiman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman" }, "book": { "title": "Stardust", "slug": "stardust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "adventure", "slug": "adventure", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stardust_(Gaiman_novel)#Chapter_Eight:_Which_Treats_of_Castles_in_the_Air,_and_Other_Matters", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:08" }, { "id": "feb4687b-c865-4c1e-8796-666af710ea57", "slug": "sometimes-when-youre", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim/sometimes-when-youre", "text": "Sometimes when you're stoned it's fun to sit around and think of who might play you in the movie version of your life. What makes it fun is that no one is actually going to make a movie of your life.\n\nI'd worried that, in making the movie, the director might get me and my family wrong, but now a worse thought occurred to me: What if he got us right?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Sedaris", "slug": "david-sedaris", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris" }, "book": { "title": "Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim", "slug": "dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 147, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "family", "slug": "family", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Sedaris#Dress_Your_Family_in_Corduroy_and_Denim_(2004)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:58" }, { "id": "965ea8b6-04a9-4d01-965c-9639db7c1ea2", "slug": "and-why-should", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume/dialogues-concerning-natural-religion/and-why-should", "text": "And why should man, added he, pretend to an exemption from the lot of all other animals? 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The first entrance into life gives anguish to the new-born infant and to its wretched parent: Weakness, impotence, distress, attend each stage of that life: and it is at last finished in agony and horror.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Hume", "slug": "david-hume", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume" }, "book": { "title": "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", "slug": "dialogues-concerning-natural-religion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-hume/dialogues-concerning-natural-religion" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" }, { "name": "pessimism", "slug": "pessimism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pessimism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Hume#Dialogues_Concerning_Natural_Religion_(1779)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:56" }, { "id": "b77072eb-0db4-4bd9-8be8-85a793cc7c85", "slug": "all-animals-except", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh/all-animals-except", "text": "All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Samuel Butler", "slug": "samuel-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler" }, "book": { "title": "The Way of All Flesh", "slug": "the-way-of-all-flesh", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "animals", "slug": "animals", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals" }, { "name": "joy", "slug": "joy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(novelist)#The_Way_of_All_Flesh_(1903)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:54" }, { "id": "612816a6-7541-4548-8959-7795e19f7214", "slug": "sensible-people-get", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh/sensible-people-get", "text": "Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Samuel Butler", "slug": "samuel-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler" }, "book": { "title": "The Way of All Flesh", "slug": "the-way-of-all-flesh", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(novelist)#The_Way_of_All_Flesh_(1903)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:54" }, { "id": "66102e39-c2ae-490f-919c-28197c893015", "slug": "every-limit-is-a-beginning", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/middlemarch/every-limit-is-a-beginning", "text": "Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years? 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We may strive and scrat and fend, but it's little we can do arter all — the big things come and go wi' no striving o' our'n — they do, that they do; and I think you're in the right on it to keep the little un, Master Marner, seeing as it's been sent to you, though there's folks as thinks different.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Eliot", "slug": "george-eliot", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot" }, "book": { "title": "Silas Marner", "slug": "silas-marner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/silas-marner" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 121, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "fate", "slug": "fate", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Eliot#Silas_Marner:_The_Weaver_of_Raveloe_(1861)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:51" }, { "id": "9fc2034d-e95a-4212-a196-0beb300c33a6", "slug": "no-radiant-angel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/romola/no-radiant-angel", "text": "No radiant angel came across the gloom with a clear message for her. 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Life is short, not so much because of the short time it lasts, but because we are allowed scarcely any time to enjoy it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:34" }, { "id": "3f458bbc-ed88-4cee-89dd-c38fa196be14", "slug": "the-spectacle-of-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/the-spectacle-of-the", "text": "\"The spectacle of the world,\" said Pythagoras, \"is like the Olympic games; some are buying and selling and think only of their gains; others take an active part and strive for glory; others, and these not the worst, are content to be lookers-on.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "metaphors", "slug": "metaphors", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/metaphors" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:34" }, { "id": "4b73ed47-6804-4abd-ab0b-9c718efbcf1a", "slug": "every-age-every", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/every-age-every", "text": "Every age, every station in life, has a perfection, a ripeness, of its own.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "growing up", "slug": "growing-up", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/growing-up" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_II", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:32" }, { "id": "64cd003a-0c71-4a45-ad78-c81bda31fd4c", "slug": "life-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/life-is-not", "text": "life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young. Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "freedom", "slug": "freedom", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom" }, { "name": "civilization", "slug": "civilization", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/civilization" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_I", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:31" }, { "id": "8ebb81a0-37fd-4c95-a238-e4ae267ef674", "slug": "dyou-call-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/of-human-bondage/dyou-call-life", "text": "D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Somerset Maugham", "slug": "william-somerset-maugham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham" }, "book": { "title": "Of Human Bondage", "slug": "of-human-bondage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/of-human-bondage" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "poverty", "slug": "poverty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poverty" }, { "name": "family", "slug": "family", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham#Of_Human_Bondage_(1915)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:26" }, { "id": "6aeb6e18-0b1f-4c1e-9c8c-45c9596342f3", "slug": "there-was-an-immeasurable", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/of-human-bondage/there-was-an-immeasurable", "text": "There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Somerset Maugham", "slug": "william-somerset-maugham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham" }, "book": { "title": "Of Human Bondage", "slug": "of-human-bondage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/of-human-bondage" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham#Of_Human_Bondage_(1915)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:26" }, { "id": "3b741a7e-465d-4cd7-8f5e-4648dc1d1567", "slug": "to-all-this", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/to-all-this", "text": "To all this, someone is sure to object that life ought to subject itself to reason, to which we will reply that nobody ought to do what he is unable to do, and life cannot subject itself to reason. \"Ought, therefore can,\" some Kantian will retort. To which we shall demur: \"Cannot, therefore ought not.\" And life cannot submit itself to reason, because the end of life is living and not understanding.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Miguel de Unamuno", "slug": "miguel-de-unamuno", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno" }, "book": { "title": "Tragic Sense of Life", "slug": "tragic-sense-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "reason", "slug": "reason", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno#VI_:_In_the_Depths_of_the_Abyss", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:21" }, { "id": "86d59bd1-95f6-4c0d-a994-13bc3aedfdcb", "slug": "and-he-arrives", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/and-he-arrives", "text": "And he arrives at the cogito ergo sum, which St. Augustine had already anticipated... \"I think therefore I am,\" can only mean \"I think, therefore I am a thinker\"; this being of \"I am,\" which is deduced from \"I think,\" is merely a knowing; this being is a knowledge, but not life. And the primary reality is not that I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think. Although this living may not be a real living. God! what contradictions when we seek to join in wedlock life and reason!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Miguel de Unamuno", "slug": "miguel-de-unamuno", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno" }, "book": { "title": "Tragic Sense of Life", "slug": "tragic-sense-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "reason", "slug": "reason", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason" }, { "name": "philosophy", "slug": "philosophy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/philosophy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno#II_:_The_Starting-Point", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:20" }, { "id": "0159125f-fdf4-40a8-9fae-7f1c37b4ef19", "slug": "yes-perhaps-as-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/yes-perhaps-as-the", "text": "Yes perhaps, as the Sage says, \"nothing worthy of proving can be proven, nor yet disproven\"; but can we restrain that instinct which urges man to wish to know, and above all to wish to know the things which conduce to life, to eternal life? Eternal life, not eternal knowledge as the Alexandrian gnostic said. For living is one thing and knowing is another; and... perhaps there is an opposition between the two that we may say that everything vital is anti-rational, not merely irrational, and that everything rational is anti-vital. And this is the basis of the tragic sense of life.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Miguel de Unamuno", "slug": "miguel-de-unamuno", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno" }, "book": { "title": "Tragic Sense of Life", "slug": "tragic-sense-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "reason", "slug": "reason", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason" }, { "name": "immortality", "slug": "immortality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/immortality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno#II_:_The_Starting-Point", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:20" }, { "id": "0e90b70e-5c41-4389-8a68-1530ff3f4636", "slug": "life-has-always", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/memories-dreams-reflections/life-has-always", "text": "Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Carl Jung", "slug": "carl-jung", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung" }, "book": { "title": "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", "slug": "memories-dreams-reflections", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/memories-dreams-reflections" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" }, { "name": "metaphors", "slug": "metaphors", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/metaphors" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Jung#Memories,_Dreams,_Reflections_(1963)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:17" }, { "id": "f7d44f86-5fb0-4e14-a47c-f63bf1245272", "slug": "it-was-all", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/it-was-all", "text": "It was all nonsense, as they both knew. In reality there was no escape. Even the one plan that was practicable, suicide, they had no intention of carrying out. To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Orwell", "slug": "george-orwell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell" }, "book": { "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_5", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14" }, { "id": "6e038ffb-ef5b-44aa-9bc1-2c9043cf60a9", "slug": "this-life-we-live", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/keep-the-aspidistra-flying/this-life-we-live", "text": "This life we live nowadays! It's not life, it's stagnation, death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses, and the meaningless people inside them! Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Orwell", "slug": "george-orwell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell" }, "book": { "title": "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", "slug": "keep-the-aspidistra-flying", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/keep-the-aspidistra-flying" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "meaning of life", "slug": "meaning-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying_(1936)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:10" }, { "id": "ff16acb7-3c99-4474-9327-24ebc01e4591", "slug": "he-was-an-embittered", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london/he-was-an-embittered", "text": "He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve. Sometimes, he said, when sleeping on the Embankment, it had consoled him to look up at Mars or Jupiter and think that there were probably Embankment sleepers there. He had a curious theory about this. Life on earth, he said, is harsh because the planet is poor in the necessities of existence. Mars, with its cold climate and scanty water, must be far poorer, and life correspondingly harsher. Whereas on earth you are merely imprisoned for stealing sixpence, on Mars you are probably boiled alive. This thought cheered Bozo, I do not know why. 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Even when you sleep.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Andy Warhol", "slug": "andy-warhol", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-warhol" }, "book": { "title": "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol", "slug": "the-philosophy-of-andy-warhol", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-warhol/the-philosophy-of-andy-warhol" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "work", "slug": "work", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol#The_Philosophy_of_Andy_Warhol_(1975)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:12" }, { "id": "dfe14275-d503-4e0c-b1dc-8049bceb00b2", "slug": "in-fact-safety", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/p-j-orourke/republican-party-reptile/in-fact-safety", "text": "In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "P. J. 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Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Albert Camus", "slug": "albert-camus", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus" }, "book": { "title": "The Rebel", "slug": "the-rebel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#The_Rebel_(1951)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:57" }, { "id": "f91393d5-786c-44d9-9577-e5a32e898a41", "slug": "he-realized-now", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death/he-realized-now", "text": "He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of life. Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in man. And all those who had not made the gestures necessary to live their lives, all those who feared and exalted impotence — they were afraid of death because of the sanction it gave to a life in which they had not been involved. 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I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. 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As one journeys along he gains experiences and even some ideas. Accumulated opinions and philosophy may be more important to others than the bare facts about how he lived, so my ambition is not so much to relate the occurrences as to record the ideas that life has forced me to accept; and, after all, thoughts, impressions and feelings are really life itself. I should like to think that these reflections might make existence a trifle easier for some of those who may chance to read this story.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Clarence Darrow", "slug": "clarence-darrow", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clarence-darrow" }, "book": { "title": "The Story Of My Life", "slug": "the-story-of-my-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clarence-darrow/the-story-of-my-life" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clarence_Darrow#The_Story_of_My_Life_(1932)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:50" }, { "id": "3bf7a2af-3aff-4427-bae6-92f36f74adba", "slug": "you-gwyne-to-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/you-gwyne-to-have", "text": "You gwyne to have considable trouble in yo’ life, en considable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you’s gwyne to git well agin.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mark Twain", "slug": "mark-twain", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain" }, "book": { "title": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "slug": "the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn#Chapter_4", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:47" }, { "id": "a4f7be25-521c-43ec-bb8d-cac57bf40f85", "slug": "but-men-must", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-advancement-of-learning/but-men-must", "text": "But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Francis Bacon", "slug": "francis-bacon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon" }, "book": { "title": "The Advancement of Learning", "slug": "the-advancement-of-learning", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-advancement-of-learning" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon#The_Advancement_of_Learning_(1605)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:38" }, { "id": "ed42d813-2370-4561-9f98-df6b0d8cb377", "slug": "what-is-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/what-is-life", "text": "What is life but a series of inspired follies? 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