Top 100 Life Could Quotes
#1. Hope could betray you - but if you had no hope, life could actually
surprise you in the best of ways.
Amy Lane
#2. History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.
Arthur Goldberg
#3. 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
#4. We have that feeling that life could have been other, different, better in a way impossible to articulate, yet we sense there was another road we missed.
Chloe Thurlow
#5. It was my own special brand of insanity that made me think the trials of Lucy's life could somehow be eased by the order of Tupperware.
Ann Patchett
#6. 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
#7. A whole life could change, and change again, in the smallest fraction of forever.
Betsy Cornwell
#8. ONLY THE DAY DAWNS TO WHICH WE ARE AWAKE,IF WE ARE TO GRASP THE REALITY OF OUR LIFE WHILE WE HAVE IT,WE WILL NEED TO WAKE UP TO OUR MOMENTS,OTHERWISE,WHOLE DAYS,EVEN A WHOLE LIFE COULD SLIP BY UNNOTICED..
Henry David Thoreau
#10. If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
Alan Rickman
#11. Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue something that might be of value, some element of truth and hope and usefulness, from the smashing up of my own youth by the war.
Vera Brittain
#12. I'd wasted too much time over the past twelve months considering how bad my life could get, but as I sat alone in the deserted hospital corridor, my very worst fears had never felt more real. Pete was fighting for his life, and there was every chance he could lose.
Garrett Leigh
#14. Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone
Charlie Chaplin
#15. At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?
Jess Walter
#16. 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
#17. She couldn't believe how quickly life could change. How could she have known when she'd woken up that morning that today was the day she'd fall in love?
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#18. If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?
Christopher Bram
#19. Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White
#20. 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
#21. Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me.
Rosie Pugh
#22. 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
#23. I understood why Giovanni had wanted me and had brought me to his last retreat. I was to destroy this room and give to Giovanni a new and better life. This life could only be my own, which, in order to transform Giovanni's, must first become a part of Giovanni's room.
James Baldwin
#24. Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
Michael Behe
#25. One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
Charles Sturt
#26. I was deeply impressed by the fact that my life could lose three days without my having any awareness of it. Maybe this was a preview of death: continuous visions and dreams and vague glimpses of reality. Only with death you never wake up: you keep having the weird images forever.
John Marsden
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. The end was nigh. She had been waiting for her father to die so her life could begin, but as we could all have told her it doesn't work like that. She knew that anyway. Really.
Atkinson, Kate
#32. She showed him something no one else had ever shown him; that it was possible to love someone more than himself; that another's suffering could bring him more agony than his own; that someone's life could come before his; that's what she showed him.
Carlos Salinas
#33. 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
#34. If everything in life could be as utterly lovely as newly washed hand towels and daintily perfumed soaps.
Jennifer Beckstrand
#35. It seemed impossible that someone who lived so fiercely, and with such hunger for all that life could offer, could be taken so suddenly.
Galadrielle Allman
#36. The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect.
Sara Sheridan
#37. 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
#38. The happiness she found in Rhys' arms was dimmed by the fact that she was going to lose him.
He shattered the walls caging her in, giving her a glimpse of what her life could have been.
And she was going to destroy it all.
Donna Grant
#39. I used to think life could be shared with anyone,
but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
Bob Goff
#40. Boo'ful," she said, "life could be so diff'rent - "
"But it never is," I said.
Ralph Ellison
#41. He was astonished at the course that life could take, at the way things that had seemed once to concern him so much
indeed to revolve around him
could turn out to have nothing to do with him at all.
Michael Chabon
#42. It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken.
Marcus Sakey
#43. Its sometimes important to not take life so seriously, so life could woo you by showing you some good time.
Rupali Rajopadhye Rotti
#44. LATE ONE NIGHT in early October 1913, William Yale lay in his tent in the mountains of Anatolia, struck by a sense of wonder at how quickly a life could change. Just three weeks earlier he had been living in
Scott Anderson
#45. The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
Paul Simon
#46. ... had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.
Louisa May Alcott
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending
Jodi Picoult
#50. 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
#51. How different our life could have been and how different we could have been as a person if one little decision was altered.
M.B. Julien
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.
Anthony Bourdain
#56. 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
#57. That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.
Cheryl Strayed
#58. The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.
Steve Winwood
#59. The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.
Paul Davies
#60. 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
#61. I forgot that I might see So many beautiful things I forgot that I might need To find out what life could bring
R.J. Palacio
#62. 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
#63. My life could have been so grim ... really, really grim.
Graham Norton
#64. Life could have been different if the meetings which have decided its course had been less silent, superficial or routine, if more thoughts had been exchanged, if humanity had been more able to show itself in them
Theodore Zeldin
#65. 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
#66. No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.
Dorothy Richardson
#67. And that was freaky to think about, how life could go from wonderful to terrible in the blink of an eye.
Lauren Myracle
#69. 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
#70. I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.
Dean Winters
#71. No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.
Orison Swett Marden
#72. I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came through so many close calls where my life could very easily have been ended.
Monte Irvin
#73. The overworked man was tired of everything, and he only kept going because he had long since forgotten that life could consist of anything else.
Jonas Jonasson
#74. Was I a dreamer, looking for an elusive happiness that real life could never deliver? Or were we meant to know the rapture of being alive, even at the cost of breaking the rules?
Elizabeth Lesser
#75. 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
#76. Learn something. Read a book. Explore someone. Anger is just a hole where your life could be.
Garrett Leigh
#77. The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility of a nonhuman agent or agents, some mysterious Other, intervening in my life, could I still call myself an atheist?
Barbara Ehrenreich
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. As she reached for the plates, she wondered if her life could get any weirder. Her life savings had been handed over to a band of South American guerrillas, she had a phony engagement to a famous football player, she was homeless and jobless, and she was making breakfast for Mad Jack Patriot.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#83. Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.
Omar Sy
#84. Sometimes your hole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
-Lover Awakened
J.R. Ward
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something
Arthur Phillips
#89. Taking your own life could become the ultimate failure, because you will be killing and closing the existing door to a chance that might have been waiting to lead you into another path.
Archibald Marwizi
#90. He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn't really care how long that might be. She was his world now, his priority, the rest of his life could wait as far as he was concerned. As long as he knew she was safe, it would all be okay.
Shayna Varadeaux
#91. Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
J.R. Ward
#92. If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
Lawana Blackwell
#94. So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.
Samuel Johnson
#95. I was impressed by the variety of dreams and goals that life could offer.
Haruki Murakami
#96. Phury glanced at John and thought that sometimes it took only a hairbreadth between cars to avoid a mortal accident. Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine.
J.R. Ward
#97. It's amazing how something that had, in concept, seemed so insignificant to my life could not become my entire world.
A Meredith Walters
#99. Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.
Deepak Chopra
#100. Once you'd learned how bad life could go, and how quickly, you tried to protect those who remained.
Kristin Hannah
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