Borrow Life Quotes

#1. It'd be a good setting to jump overboard,' said Dick mildly.
'Wouldn't it?' agreed Nicole hastily. 'Let's borrow life-preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Lend me your ears and you can borrow my mind

Benny Bellamacina

#3. Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
Here today and gone tomorrow ... just like that.

E-40

#4. We were, to borrow from Nabokov, to experience how the ordinary pebble of ordinary life could be transformed into a jewel through the magic eye of fiction.

Azar Nafisi

#5. I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

William Hazlitt

#6. Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

Robert Orben

#7. I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#8. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

George Borrow

#9. New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Time is infinitely more precious than money, and there is nothing common between them. You cannot accumulate time; you cannot borrow time; you can never tell how much time you have left in the Bank of Life. Time is life ...

Israel Davidson

#11. Learn from your existence and borrow things from your day to day. Have adventures. Take risks. Put yourself into your fiction. Because life offers a kind of writing advice you just can't read about
it's something only you can experience.

Chuck Wendig

#12. Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life.

Ruth Ozeki

#13. Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

George Will

#14. Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.

Robert Moss

#15. Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

Charles Bracelen Flood

#16. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at that point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat- borrow somebody else's life- their aura. I seemed to have lost the ability to create any more aura on my own.

Douglas Coupland

#17. Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.

Samuel Butler

#18. Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow? Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#19. If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse ...

Seth Godin

#20. How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

Franz Grillparzer

#21. Death cut the strings that gave me life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg or borrow.

Countee Cullen

#22. If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

George Henry Borrow

#23. Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

Samuel Johnson

#24. I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirely invented, ninety-five percent. And even when I do borrow something, it becomes fictionalized.

Paul Auster

#25. The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.

Will Cuppy

#26. You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

Jennifer O'Neill

#27. In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Oscar Wilde

#28. The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

George Henry Borrow

#29. You don't borrow trouble.

Jodi Picoult

#30. We only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how we lived, we all die feeling owed.

Craig Stone

#31. A bit of mist and light suffice for life to overpower nothingness. A bit of hope and time suffice for you to cross the mountain trails of myth; you were spared the fate of your ancestors. So borrow the wisdom of the anemones and say: Nothingness does not concern me, even if death besieges me.

Mahmoud Darwish

#32. If your Life is full of Sorrow, then beg, steal, or borrow ENTHUSIASM from a great soul to make your Life whole.-RVM

R.v.m.