Life Quotes

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parke

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Tom Stoppard

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Dame Rose Macaulay

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

Marie Curie

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miyamoto Musashi

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.

Frank Zappa

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Mary Asto

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Eric Hoffe

The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Raoul Vaneigem

Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

John Lennon, Imagine

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - The moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

Albert Einstein

A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.

Eugene E. Brussell

Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Wilson Mizne

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne

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

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

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

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Fred Allen

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.

Plato

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Walter Stegne

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau