Life Quotes

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.

Pearl Buck

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

Henry David Thoreau

Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.

Micron

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Richard Burton

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Karl Barth

There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Cicero

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Frank Gelett Burgess

I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Sir Laurence Kerr Olivie

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.

Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)

Love is the very essence of life.

Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Life is an onion and one peels it crying.

French Prove

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.

Albert Einstein