Brooks Atkinson Quotes

Life itself is a quotation.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Life is a four-letter word.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Convert life into truth.

For whatever you live is life.

Things aren't different. Things are things.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love is real, real is love.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

You are what exists before all stories.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

What is life without the radiance of love?

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.