Life Quotes

"I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life"

"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York"

Christo, Artist

"Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely"

Brian Molko, Musician

"Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"Life is a lively process of becoming"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together"

Anais Nin, Author

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage"

Anais Nin, Author

"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat"

Anais Nin, Author

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death"

Anais Nin, Author

"Dreams are necessary to life"

Anais Nin, Author

"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

"Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

"I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"One must choose in life between boredom and suffering"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech"

Chris Brown, Musician

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