Life Could Be Quotes

#1. I wish every day of my life could be this absurd.

Julie Murphy

#2. Life could be lived in such an assured manner.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Roald Dahl

#4. I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

Dean Winters

#5. Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

Mona Simpson

#6. Learn something. Read a book. Explore someone. Anger is just a hole where your life could be.

Garrett Leigh

#7. Up until then I had lived for myself or at least inside of myself. I had gotten married without imagining that my wife was anything more than a comrade, without realizing precisely that because of our union my life could be changed.

Andre Gide

#8. To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn't bogged down in random trivial details or the luxury of time-consuming over-analysis. This place forced you to live because at any moment, life could be lost. Ramadi forced me to die unto myself.

M.B. Dallocchio

#9. The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#10. Not too many people know how life could be best used, it is a millennial dilemma, that has troubled souls of men for many, many generations.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. If a man's life could be capitalized as X, the risk at Y, and the estimated damage from explosion at V, then a logician might contend that if V is less than X over Y, the bomb should be blown up; but if V over Y is greater than X, an attempt should be made to avoid explosion in situ.

Michael Ondaatje

#12. And I hope you find it, what your looking for, and I hope it's everything you dreamed your life could be and so much more

Miley Cyrus

#13. Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men always are.

Jamaica Kincaid

#14. If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

Hannah Arendt

#15. While life could be evaded, death could not.

Dean Koontz

#16. Every opportunity with another was an opportunity to serve my fellow man. Every moment alone was a chance to grow and become more of who I already was. I instantly felt how great a life could be, and that was only made possible by service toward others.

Chris Matakas

#17. The voices of the children were pure; their hearts were pure. Some of them had already discovered how hard life could be; others had yet to do so and probably did not fully understand what the world could be.

Alexander McCall Smith

#18. There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

Galt Niederhoffer

#19. Would you say you have a "philosophy" Of your own? If so what is it?'
'If I have it's all skin and bones ... If I have any philosophy ... it's that life could be better than it is.

Bernard Malamud

#20. Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.

Deepak Chopra

#21. I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.

Lucas Grabeel

#22. Making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.

Amy Harmon

#23. Freddie used to say that Life could be safe, or it could be interesting, but it couldn't be both.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#24. What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.

Jennifer Niven

#25. There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work because producers want bums on seats, and they're going to get bums on seats if they get a name, if you have had that series on telly.

Alexander Hanson

#26. The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.

Steve Winwood

#27. That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

Cheryl Strayed

#28. This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I'm filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I've jumped off a cliff, but I know that if I don't look down, I'll be just fine.

Heather Demetrios

#29. Housework was comforting. In cleaning and restoring a room, one could assert control. One could even pretend, briefly, that life could be tidied the same way.

Robin Hobb

#30. Why give me this life and then give me this disease? Why give me joy and beauty of you and Charlie and then snatch it away? It's like showing someone a glimpse of what life could be like and in the next breath telling them that it can never happen

Michael Robotham

#31. I wish I'd been born with your capacity for wonder. I wouldn't mind living a shorter life if my short life could be as vivid as yours.

Sara Baume

#32. The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.

George W. Bush

#33. I didn't believe it was happening. But it was.
Just being here, being away, it was all so much easier in a way I didn't anticipate. In a way I didn't
think my life could be anymore. It was a huge relief.

Gayle Forman

#34. Joey wished there were some different world he could belong to, some simpler world in which a good life could be had at nobody else's expense.

Jonathan Franzen

#35. The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

Paul Simon

#36. Boo'ful," she said, "life could be so diff'rent - "
"But it never is," I said.

Ralph Ellison

#37. I used to think life could be shared with anyone,
but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.

Bob Goff

#38. It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful.

Richard Flanagan

#39. If everything in life could be as utterly lovely as newly washed hand towels and daintily perfumed soaps.

Jennifer Beckstrand

#40. The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on the aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.

Wayne Hale

#41. Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible.

Gerhard Richter

#42. We shouldn't be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

Donald Miller

#43. I'll be a great doctor with excellent bedside skills.
I'll be perfectly happy.
But something about Natasha makes me think my life could be extraordinary.

Nicola Yoon

#44. I should have imagined how ugly life could be without you, how painful without your love and how lonely without your smiles.

M.F. Moonzajer

#45. Funny how your life could be interrupted: You left a house expecting to come back, but then the path you were on took you left instead of around again to the right. How

J.R. Ward

#46. No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year
ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge
and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#47. I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And ... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

Marilyn Manson

#48. Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charlie Chaplin

#49. Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.

Terry Pratchett

#50. If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Alan Rickman

#51. She was grateful life could be long.

Laura Moriarty

#52. 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

#53. Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.

John S. Hall

#54. No proper life could be made from the pursuit of blinding pleasure followed by limp exhaustion.

Julie Anne Long

#55. I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

Sara Sheridan

#56. Funny how different life could be, so many things that make you take one route instead of another. If only we could live them all.

Peter F. Hamilton

#57. Choices were easy to make until you realized how long life could be.

Emma Straub

#58. Life could be wonder full
if people would leave you alone ...

Charlie Chaplin

#59. What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will

Stella Gibbons

#60. The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

Janet Fitch

#61. She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there were other ways to live, at how intense and rich life could be.

Katarina Bivald

#62. I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one," he said.
"Life can be difficult for everyone," she replied.
"Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.

Patricia Grasso

#63. The best life could be best live by you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#64. A book had always been a door to another world ... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.
And that love could fill the real world with magic.

Lisa Kleypas

#65. I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

Debby Ryan

#66. I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Marianne Williamson

#67. If only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#68. How strange and frightening and intoxicating life could be.

Magnus Flyte

#69. Life could be a strange and beautiful thing sometimes. Other times it was just a disaster. But sometimes beauty won out.

Kylie Scott

#70. Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

Abraham Maslow

#71. The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy.

Laini Taylor

#72. The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

Emma Woolf

#73. Life could be hideous or beautiful, often both, but never mediocre

Kate Tempest

#74. If everything about life could be as simple as calculus, my world would be just perfect." -Mia

S.T. Bende

#75. Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

Kate Morton

#76. Hope is like a beautiful flower. If we take great care of our hope, life could be a beautiful garden.

Debasish Mridha

#77. I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

Nancy Travis

#78. My body is tired as worn out rug, but my brain (if i had) is always full of curiosity, jumping around for seeking new funs. If they could learn how to be cooperative each others, my life could be way easier ... sigh*

Hiroko Sakai

#79. I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

John Slattery

#80. Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life could be at its very best, that's what I call meeting your rhinoceros.

Martha Beck

#81. The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Janet Fitch

#82. I guess that's how it goes. Opposites attract. He was the sunshine to my rain. He could find the best in an ordinary day of clouds and I gravitated towards his rays. He taught me how wonderful life could be and he gave me so much. And for that, I am truly grateful.

Katherine Owen

#83. Just think if life could be like that sometimes... If joy could express itself with the same force as pain.

David Lagercrantz

#84. And I thought to myself, even though life could be horrifying and earth-shattering, terrible and tragic, it was also filled with moments of breathtaking beauty. And sometimes you just had to laugh.

Mia Sheridan

#85. Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Leo Tolstoy

#86. Your life has a natural motion. Surrendering reveals how flowing this life could be.

Kelly Martin

#87. If you ever wanted to know how good life could be; start living it without the views and opinions of the world!

Mary Rodwell

#88. A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

Jerzy Kosinski

#89. I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

Russell Banks

#90. What if more of life could be like that? Like the last slow dance, where, to echo T.S. Eliot, a lifetime burns in every moment.

Alice Steinbach

#91. Linda shares her packet of Custard Creams with me, and Marion says "Picking is hungry work" in her bunged up voice, and I say, "Yeah, it is, Marion," and Marion's really happy, and I wish her life could be easier than it's going to be.

David Mitchell

#92. When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

Jack Kornfield

#93. Life is so great. Life is so fun. Life is so great in my head because I see the love. I see what life could be. As long as I can fulfill it and fulfill my days, it will be fruitful and come about.

Lil B

#94. Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?'

Steve Prefontaine

#95. Oh there is always sadness. Always grief. I have heard folks say this life could be all hardship and sorrow, if we let it be. If we let our hearts seal over.

Susan Fletcher

#96. Testimony to her belief that life could be managed if things were only kept in their proper places.

Carolee Dean

#97. Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."

Ian McEwan

#98. Duration of life is short but donation of life could be unbounded.

Debasish Mridha

#99. It had replayed in her mind, over and over, growing in importance till it seemed her whole life could be slotted into two categories. Life before the kiss, and life after the kiss. Her life before the kiss had moved step by step ever closer to the predestined event. Meeting Dougal. And kissing him.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#100. I wish that life could be carefree, sunny, never cloudy- But you said that I would be in Your arms when things get crazy- so when the storm doesn't go away- I have decided to sing in the rain.

Moriah Peters