E. B. White Quotes about Life

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

Life, Good Morning, Time

E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.148, Cornell University Press

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

E. B. White

Life, Justice

E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

E. B. White

Inspirational, Life, Writing

E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

Loneliness is a strange gift.

E. B. White

Life, Loneliness, Strange

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

E. B. White

Life, Heaven, Trying

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

E. B. White

Inspirational, Life, Nature