Life Quotes

"After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love"

Henry Drummond, Writer

"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles"

Henry Drummond, Writer

"On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love"

Henry Drummond, Writer

"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory"

Marcel Proust, Author

"Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things"

Marcel Proust, Author

"The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"I live a very low-key life"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"I enjoy the quiet life"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"A confession has to be part of your new life"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

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