You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. Bob Dylan
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life. William Law
Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. Tom Stoppard
That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. Plutarch