Life Quotes

It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".

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

Gordon William Allport

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

Charles M. Schwa

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Browne

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace, Satires

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

Author Unknown

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

Gottfried Reinhardt

Life must be lived as play.

Plato

Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Carl Jung, "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Erich Fromm

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

James Dean

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Dr. Robert Schulle

If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus.

Albert Camus

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.

Anonymous

I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life.

Sir Thomas Browne

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

David Searls

Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

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

What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau

There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.

B. J. Gupta

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Frederika Breme

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

Johann von Goethe

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine.

Abraham Kuype

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin