Lorrie Moore Quotes

The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.

To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.

You know every stage of your life has an impact on you.

One man in his time plays many parts.

I think the interesting aspect of life is that you're always sort of in the middle. You're never the youngest and you're never the oldest.