Life Quotes

Lucius annaeus seneca - the hour which gives us life begins to take it...
Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.
Seami Motokiyo
Lewis grizzard - the game of life is a lot like football. you have...
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
Michael Johnson
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.
Roger Banniste
If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit more.
Jules Renard
Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.
Woodrow Wilson
Ken keyes - no one that ever lived has ever had enough power,...
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
James M. Barrie
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.
Florence Nightingale
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Brandon Lee
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Thornton Wilde
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
Nathan Hale
What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.
Flora Colao
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Brackett Reed
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
Jeremy Taylo
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
John Lennon
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.
John Keats
Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
Mary Beth Danielson
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
David Gerrold
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
Barbara DeAngelis
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell V. Delong
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw