Life Quotes

• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

  Sholom Aleichem

• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

  Marcus Aurelius

• Your life is what your thoughts make it.

  Marcus Aurelius

• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

  Richard Bach

• Life is a long lesson in humility.

  James M. Barrie

• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".

  Erma Bombeck

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Buddha

• The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

  Robert Byrne

• Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

  Anton Chekhov

• While there's life, there's hope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

• You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

  Quentin Crisp

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  e. e. cummings

• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  Emily Dickinson

• Only a few things are really important.

  Marie Dressler

• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

  Henry Ellis

• Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

  Erich Fromm

• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

• Life is half spent before we know what it is.

  George Herbert

• We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

  Lauryn Hill

• Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

• Life is wasted on the living.

  Douglas Adams

• Life loves the liver of it.

  Maya Angelou

• What we play is life.

  Louis Armstrong

• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

  Josh Billings

• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

  Mel Brooks

• I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

  John Burroughs

• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

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

  Charles Darwin

• But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

  Umberto Eco

• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

• Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

  Brendan Gill

• My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

  Cary Grant

• Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

• Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

  Karen Horney

• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

  Karen Horney

• Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

  David Lodge

• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  H. L. Mencken

• People living deeply have no fear of death.

  Anais Nin

• The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

  William Lyon Phelps

• There is no wealth but life.

  John Ruskin

• I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

  Charles M. Schulz

• There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

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

  Mark Twain

• Life well spent is long.

  Leonardo da Vinci

• Life is never easy for those who dream.

  Robert James Waller

• I love life because what more is there.

  Anthony Hopkins

• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

• This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

  William James

• God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

  Garrison Keillor

• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  Fran Lebowitz

• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

• Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

  Arthur Miller

• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• Life must be lived as play.

  Plato

• Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

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

  George Bernard Shaw

• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

  Socrates

• May you live every day of your life.

  Jonathan Swift

• Life is but thought.

  Sara Teasdale

• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

• The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

• Everything in life is luck.

  Donald Trump

• Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

  William Wallace

• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

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