Life Quotes
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.Oswald Spengle
Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.Robert Browning
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.Henry David Thoreau
Life is just one damned thing after another.Elbert Hubbard
Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.Vida D. Scudde
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.Eugene Delacroix
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.Marlin Finch Lupus
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.Emil Nolde
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.Patricia Russell - McCloud
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.La Bruyere
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.Soren Kierkegaard
Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.Henry David Thoreau
While we are postponing, life speeds by.Seneca
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.Jacob Bigelow
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.Margaret Fulle
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.H. T. Leslie
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.Henry David Thoreau
Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.Seami Motokiyo
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Pablo Picasso
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.Buddha
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.Elizabeth Goudge
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.Barry Switze
Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.Judith Stern
A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I still ask for daily - For life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.Reynolds Price
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
