Quotes on life
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
Bruyere, Jean de La
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
Einstein, Albert
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Fischer, Martin H.
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.
Pirandello, Luigi
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
Proverb
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
Author, Unknown
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go."
Angelou, Maya
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Fromm, Erich
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Miller, Arthur
... the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Luce, Clare Boothe
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Arnold, Matthew
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Allport, Gordon
Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.
Unknown, Author
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose.
Allen, Fred
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Byrne, Robert
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
Lloyd, Chris Evert
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within.
Author, Unknown
The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace.
Waters, Levende
The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.
Adams, Jessi Lane
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Anderson, Hans Christian
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Einstein, Albert
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
Miller, Henry
A useless life is an early death.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
Author, Unknown
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
Author, Unknown
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Adamic, Louis
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
Wholey, Dennis
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
Brown, Charlie
Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
Allen, Woody
Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
Law, Agnes'
We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.
Stacy
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Adams, Douglas
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
Porchia, Antonio
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.
White, E. B.
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.
Adams, Douglas
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Proverb, Chinese
Life's too short for chess.
Byron, Henry James
Life is the sum of all your choices.
Camus, Albert
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Hawking, Stephen
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Adler, Alfred
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
Anderson, Sherwood
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought h
Author, Unknown
Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
Shaw, George Bernard
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Johnson, Samuel
Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself.
Alius, Corri
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.
White, E. B.
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
Waller, Robert James
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
Brilliant, Ashleigh
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
Rockefeller, John D.
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Horney, Karen
Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?
Anouilh, Jean
Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.
Landon, Michael
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
Adams, Douglas
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
Carrey, Jim
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Dickinson, Emily
Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.
Unknown, Author
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Keillor, Garrison
He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
Bibesco, Elizabeth
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the creator, there is no poverty.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
I thought your line was great about, uh,"life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." I mean, it's completely true.
Allen, Woody
Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you.
Anonymous
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
Brooks, Phillips
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Unknown, Author
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Addison, Joseph
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Mencken, H.L.
Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
Morgen, Cherralea
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Allen, Woody
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Franklin, Benjamin
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off. The right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.
Maksian, Rick