Quotes: Life (18)

Life 203 Sometimes, life is simply to live, not to do. "To know that life is being as well as going, that there are times when the byways are more important than the highways of the world." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

Life 310 Life is order in complexity. "Know that life is more than protoplasm, more than fertile egg or ovum, that it is ultimate order in complexity." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

Life 340 The wonder of wondering. December. "But man is abroad...knowing dawn, knowing the wonder of a new day even in December...knowing the wonder of wondering itself." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

Life 350 Life will persist whether humans are here to see it or not. "Even so rudimentary a thing as a root, a seed, or an insect egg is an expression of insistent vitality, of life itself...life, which will persist whether man is here to see it or not...and occasionally we catch a glimpse of its elemental meaning." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

Life 355 We have faith that if there was a yesterday there will be a tomorrow. "We are wise; we are sophisticated; believing that because there was a yesterday there will be a tomorrow, we take it on faith; last year and last summer are sufficient proof that another year, another summer lie ahead." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

Life 356 Earth, sun and time continue and only man summarizes. "Earth and sun and time proceed in their cyclic rounds, and only man presumes to summarize." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

Life 356 There is no end or beginning to the year but only a part of the whole. "...year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a part of the infinite whole." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

Life 357 "Now" does not exist without a yesterday and a tomorrow. " … 'now' itself has no meaning without a yesterday and a tomorrow." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

Life 91 No one can completely comprehend the world. "Kafka’s intuition that if the world has coherence, it is one that we can never fully comprehend." Manguel, A History of Reading.

Life 195 Everything good in his life occurred because of chance. "Like all the good things that occurred in his long life, that tremendous fortune had its origins in chance." Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude.