Life Quotes

"For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"In real life, events seem much less dramatic"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour"

Jose Marti, Activist

"The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15"

Robert Caro, Writer

"That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

"For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people"

Joss Whedon, Writer

"So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that"

Josh Silver, Musician

"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time"

Jean Paul, Author

"In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Attitude determines the altitude of life"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

"It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life"

David Geffen, Businessman

"I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz"

David Geffen, Businessman

"The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Who can worry about a career? Have a life"

Frances McDormand, Actress

"I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again"

Frances McDormand, Actress

"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life"

Jean Paul, Author

"My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory"

Claude Debussy, Composer

"I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now"

Candice Bergen, Actress

"It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls"

Bruce Barton, Author

"I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life"

George Sand, Novelist

"Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread"

Candice Bergen, Actress

"During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come"

Mika Waltari, Author

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