23 Quotes on Life from Books

Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 23 quotes about Life that I liked and saved from various books. I hope you will like these quotes too.

By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.

Life Quotes from 11/22/63 book by Stephen King

  • I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?
  • Life is too sweet to give up without a fight, don’t you think?
  • My little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime.
  • Life turns on a dime. Sometimes toward us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?

more quotes from this book →

Life Quotes from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey

  • I’ve always gotten away with more in life than in my dreams.
  • Life is our résumé. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?
  • I believe everything we do in life is part of a plan. Sometimes the plan goes as intended, and sometimes it doesn’t. That’s part of the plan.

more quotes from this book →

Life Quotes from The 5 Types of Wealth book by Sahil Bloom

  • The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it’s a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers of persistence, concentration, and insight to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, think deeply.
  • Life is so very fragile, but no matter how fragile it is, each day we have a choice of how to live it. Each day is a fresh start, a fresh choice to make.

more quotes from this book →

Life Quotes from The World According to Garp book by John Irving

  • Life is an X-rated soap opera.
  • Life, is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead, an ending occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that’s left is memory.

more quotes from this book →

Other Life Quotes

  • In life you have to learn to count the good days. You have to tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you. – from The Thursday Murder Club book by Richard Osman
  • Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicentre, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns. – from Hamnet book by Maggie O’Farrell
  • Life is long. Everyone will tell you that it’s short, but they’re lying. It’s a long, long life. – from My Friends book by Fredrik Backman
  • Life was like that, it was all wrong until suddenly it was right, and you didn’t really know how to react in either instance. – from The Women book by Kristin Hannah
  • Life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you’re born, you’re given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. – from Ready Player Two book by Ernest Cline
  • It’s not fair. No. It’s not. Life rarely is. But we deal with it the best we can. And we allow ourselves to hope for the best. Because a life without hope isn’t a life lived at all. – from The House in the Cerulean Sea book by T. J. Klune
  • Listen to me. Life can feel very long sometimes, but in the end, it goes so fast. – from The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue book by V. E. Schwab
  • Living is the journey from not knowing to knowing. From not understanding to understanding. From confusion to clarity. By universal design you are born into a perplexing situation, bewildered, and you have one job as a human: figure this shit out. – from Will book by Will Smith
  • Life is change. If you aren’t growing and evolving you’re standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. – from Still Life book by Louise Penny
  • Ultimately, life is all about choices. One’s destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes. – from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book by Robin Sharma
  • Listen to me, if you’re not scared, then you’re not living. – from The Lost Bookshop book by Evie Woods
  • Life gets to be a burden … if you live long enough you’ll find that out for yourself. – from Fairy Tale book by Stephen King