Life Quotes

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carte

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Lawrence George Durrell

Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.

Patricia Russell - McCloud

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Herb Caen

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.

Marlin Finch Lupus

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Maxim Gorky

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

Brian Andreas

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Kenny Ausubel

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

George Bernard Shaw

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

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

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

James Barrie

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

Gottfried Reinhardt

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.

Euripides

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

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

Bette Davis

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylveste

Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

John Lennon, Imagine

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins