Life Quotes

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.

Seami Motokiyo

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

Robert Burns

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

Russell G. Alexande

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H. G. Wells

It? s never too late?? in fiction or in life?? to revise.

Nancy Thaye

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Jane Fonda

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.

Albert Einstein

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.

Thomas Carlyle

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak

There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.

B. J. Gupta

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carte

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.

Patricia Roberts Harris

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffe

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Rob Brown

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Socrates

The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.

Samuel Smiles

The bigger the real - Life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy - Land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.

Tom Naylo

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Gagehot

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Kahlil Gibran

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Piero Ferrucci