Life Quotes

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Alcaeus

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.

Edwin Conklin

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast - Table", 1872

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English prove

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoi

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

Marie Curie

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

John Barth

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - The moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.

Unknown

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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our brains are seventy - Year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Hfiz

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Erich Fromm

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.

David Van Boom

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

D. H. Lawrence

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.

Woody Allen

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato the Elde

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok