Life Quotes

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.

Mavette Sadile

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Roberts Buxton

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.

Alicia Barnhart

I have 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

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.

Vijay Krishna

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Darlington Morley

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

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.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Joseph Addison

Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

Michael Sinz

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Sir Thomas Brown

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

Russell G. Alexande

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Muriel Spark

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

Dame Rose Macaulay

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Hermann Hesse

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

Euripedes, Medea

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley

I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.

Andrew Schneide

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato, The Republic

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Kingsley Amis

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Samuel Smiles

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefelle

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

Henri Estienne

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

H. G. Wells