Life Quotes

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida D. Scudde

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Danish prove

Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Marquis de Condorcet

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkne

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.

Mark Twain

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.

Patricia Roberts Harris

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".