Life Quotes

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio

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

It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefelle

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.

Henry David Thoreau

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkne

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Maurice Druon

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

Giacomo Leopardi

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

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

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.

Andrew Schneide

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Rene Angelil

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Albert Camus

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires (early book)

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

Thomas Jefferson

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.

Lord Byron, Don Juan

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Gordon William Allport

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Samuel Johnson

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

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

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Henry Holt

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey