35 Novel Quotes About Life
This is a curated collection of the best novel quotes about life. Discover profound insights on life through the lines of novels by famous authors.
Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so.Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes (2003)
Life is like that first game of chess. By the time you begin to understand how the pieces move, you’ve already lost.Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace (1994)
Life’s no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe’s my own to fool with.Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Also known as: The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001)
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Don’t take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.Colleen Hoover, Slammed (2012)
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.Albert Camus, A Happy Death (1971)
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven (1993)
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it.Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (1887)
Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That’s why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930).
Why, if there is anything in supply and demand, life is the cheapest thing in the world.Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (1904)
Life’s a mystery, isn’t it? People who try and plan it inevitably end up disappointed.Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry (2022)
If life is given us for life’s sake, there is no reason for living.Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata (1889), (Oxford University Press, ed. 2016), Chapter XI, Page 109
Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes (2015)
Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six (2019)
Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it.Sidney Sheldon, The Naked Face (1970)
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.E. B. White, Charlotte's Web (1952)
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)