Life Quotes

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
Anonymous - the best way to succeed in life is to act on the...
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Browne
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
M. r. vincent - mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not...
Life is just a bowl of pits.
Rodney Dangerfield
Annie besant - never forget that life can only be nobly inspired...
Live the wonderful life that is in you.
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.
Sydney Smith
Whose life is it anyway?
Brian Clark, Play title
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.
Kahlil Gibran
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.
Mary Lyon
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
Akhenaton
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Buddha
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
H. G. Wells
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spence
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Gustav Jung
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.
Sydney Smith
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Phillips Brooks
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.
James A. Pike
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Plato
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Fadiman
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
Grant Frazie
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock