Life Quotes

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Heywood

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

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".

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Arthur Helps

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.

Kathleen Norris

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Alexander Senturia

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Christiane Northrup, M. D.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.

Henry James

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

Clifton Fadiman

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life.

Elizabeth Henry

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

Is there life before death.

Graffito

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.

Edwin Conklin

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.

Albert Einstein

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Mark Twain

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Albert Camus

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

Juvenal

One life - A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

Thomas Carlyle

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd