Life Quotes

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Kahlil Gibran

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.

American Greetings Card

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

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

Jack Holland

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them through his deeds.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Erma Bombeck

Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

Kathleen Norris

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

Yiddish Prove

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

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Jennifer Jones

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Robert Frost

The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

John F. Kennedy

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

We are each responsible for our own life - No other person is or even can be.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.

Philip Skelton

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd

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

W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage

Plunge boldly into the thick of life.

Johann von Goethe

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm