Life Quotes

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

MG Siriam

Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida D. Scudde

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Elizabeth Bowen

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Robert Darwin

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

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.

J. M. Barrie

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

Steven Wright

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

Life is beautiful. Life is sad.

Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuh

General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.

Sherwood Anderson

All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.

Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Che

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

It? s never too late?? in fiction or in life?? to revise.

Nancy Thaye

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty - Four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Thomas Arnold Bennett

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Olive Schreine

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

Rachel Carson

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Elizabeth Goudge

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Benjamin Johnson

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Bertrand Russell

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Joachim du Bellay

As an adolescent... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

Charles De Gaulle

A man without trust is a man without life.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Lester Bangs

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins