Life Quotes
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Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive. (Life Quote - Bugs Bunny)
Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one. (Quote by - Omar Khyyam)
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. (Life Quote - Anton Chekhov)
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation. (Quote by - Donald Trump)
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through the day easier. (Life Quote - Shannon Fancher)
Simply the thing I am shall make me live. (Life Quote - William Shakespeare)
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. (Quote by - Lionel Trilling)
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. (Quote by - D.h. Lawrence)
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.(Quote by - Samuel Ullman)
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. (Quote by - Mickey Mantle)
I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. (Quote by - Sam Levinson)
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. (Life Quote - Robert Frost)
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. (Quote by - Hans Christian Andersen)
Life is an incurable disease. (Quote by - Abraham Crowley)
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
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. 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 Quote - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it. (Life Quote - Anon.)
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut)
Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad; when the journey's over There'll be time enough for sleep. (Quote by - A.e. Housman)
One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. (Quote by - Mme. De Stael)
They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. (Quote by - Fr. Alfred D'souza)
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. (Quote by - Charles Schulz)
Once you understand life----you understand life's potential. (Life Quote - Sean Baltz)
Life itself is the proper binge. (Quote by - Julia Child)
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. (Quote by - Thomas La Mance)
Real life seems to have no plots. (Quote by - Ivy Compton-burnett)
Life isn't all beer and skittles. (Quote by - Thomas Hughes)
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made. (Quote by - A.e. Housman)
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. (Quote by - Fulton J. Sheen)
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. (Quote by - Indian Saying)
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. (Life Quote - Albert Camus)
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise. (Life Quote - George Orwell)
With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built as we discern. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. (Life Quote - Aaron Antonovsky)
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. (Quote by - Elia Kazan)
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . (Quote by - Hubert Humphrey)
There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak. (Quote by - Maurice Sendak)
The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
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. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. (Quote by - Joe E. Lewis)
The first hundred years are the hardest. (Quote by - William Mizner)
Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. (Quote by - Jarawala Nehru)
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. (Quote by - William James)
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. (Quote by - Millard Fuller)
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. (Quote by - Stephen Vincent Benét)
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
The real malady is fear of life, not of death. (Quote by - Naguib Mahfouz)
Cats and monkeys -- monkeys and cats -- all human life is there. (Quote by - Henry James)
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.(Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. (Quote by - Henry Adams)
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. (Quote by - Stephen Butler Leacock)
A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man. (Quote by - G.k. Chesterton)
At the camel auction slaughterhouse the camel lot the rejected creatures see no Camelot. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it. (Quote by - John Keats)
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.(Quote by - Groucho Marx)
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. (Quote by - William Lyon Phelps)
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button. (Quote by - Dan Chopin)
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. (Quote by - Florida Scott-maxwell)
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. (Quote by - Mary Manin Morrissey)
The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth dyeing for. Because in the end, before that final moment, is it not the moments of your life that flash before you? (Quote by - Paul Acquasanta)
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. (Quote by - Edna St Vincent Millay)
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. (Life Quote - Coco Chanel)
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. (Quote by - Khalil Gibran)
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life. (Quote by - Jean Giraudoux)
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get. (Quote by - Robbert Oustin)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. (Quote by - Chief Seattle)
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. (Quote by - Sebastien Chamfort)
Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts. (Quote by - John Keats)
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. (Quote by - T.s. Eliot)
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. (Quote by - Crowfoot)
Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. (Quote by - William Law)
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. (Quote by - Elizabeth Kubler-ross)
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
All of us have our troubles. But no matter how unhappy we are, life has to carry on. (Quote by - Lame Ger)
Saw life steadily and saw it whole. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns. (Quote by - Charles Feidelson, Jr.)
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning. (Quote by - Steven Rogers)
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. (Quote by - Alice Roosevelt Longworth)
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. (Quote by - Diane Ackerman)
My life is my message. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. (Quote by - William Saroyan)
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius Antonius)
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations. (Life Quote - Oscar Wilde)
All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it.(Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. (Quote by - Anthony J. D'angelo)
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. (Quote by - E. B. White)
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
All I want is a little more than I'll ever get. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. (Quote by - Anon.)
Growth is the only evidence of life. (Quote by - Cardinal Newman)
Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. (Quote by - Dinah Shore)
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. (Quote by - Karen Horney)
Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius Antonius)
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings. (Quote by - Alexander Smith)
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. (Quote by - Eugene O'neill)
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. (Life Quote - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. (Quote by - Barbara Kingsolver)
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. (Quote by - Jacob Bronowski)
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you. (Quote by - Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. (Quote by - Lillian Dickson)
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. (Life Quote - Mel Brooks)
Life is one long process of getting tired. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. (Quote by - Henry Van Dyke)
Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back. (Quote by - Anon.)
Life can be seen your eyes but it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. (Quote by - Mary Xavier)
Life is a dead-end street. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. (Life Quote - Thich Nhat Hanh)
Life is made up of interruptions. (Quote by - William S. Gilbert)
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good. (Quote by - Bertrand Russel)
The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die. (Quote by - Robert Southwell)
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
You live and you learn -- or you don't live long. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. (Quote by - O. Henry)
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. (Quote by - William Shakespeare, Macbeth)
Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end you have nothing. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
Life is a long lesson in humility. (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. (Quote by - Jack Handey)
It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter. (Quote by - Don Herold)
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one. (Quote by - NIKE Advertisement)
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time. (Quote by - W.J. Davison)
Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. (Quote by - Soren Kirkegaard)
I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot; If that wherein my hopes delight Be best or not. (Quote by - Henry Alford)
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. (Quote by - Horace)
Life is wasted on the living. (Life Quote - Douglas Adams)
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them. (Quote by - Margaret Mitchell)
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. (Quote by - Malcom Muggeridge)
Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.(Quote by - Pericles)
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. (Quote by - John Barrymore)
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Life is just part of the big picture. (Quote by - Alyson Goff)
This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive. (Quote by - Robert W. Service)
As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth. (Quote by - Ausone de Chancel)
We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death! [Fr., On entre, on crie, Et c'est la vie! On baille, on sort, Et c'est la mort!] (Quote by - Ausone de Chancel)
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. (Quote by - Felix Adler)
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.(Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. (Quote by - William Osler)
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. (Quote by - Hans Christian Andersen)
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over. (Life Quote - Ernest Hemingway)
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it. (Quote by - Thomas Walker)
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong. (Quote by - Edwin Arnold)
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. (Quote by - Thomas Osbert Mordaunt)
I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work. (Quote by - Susannah Clark)
The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenauer)
Life is a cement trampoline. (Quote by - Howard Nordberg)
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. (Quote by - Richard Halloway)
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. . (Life Quote - Confucius)
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. (Quote by - Hans Christian Andersen)
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb. Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. (Quote by - John Morley)
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. (Quote by - Antoine De Saint-exupery)
When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to.(Quote by - N Smith)
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? (Quote by - Archilochus)
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom -Christopher Morley. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
