Life Quotes

"A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young"

A. E. Housman, Poet

"I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"Life on the planet is born of woman"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana"

Lana Turner, Actress

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something"

Eminem, Musician

"I need drama in my life to keep making music"

Eminem, Musician

"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

"I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous"

Keith Richards, Musician

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

"The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"The difficulty in life is the choice"

George A. Moore, Novelist

"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed"

Eminem, Musician

"Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion"

Eminem, Musician

"Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

"You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?"

Ridley Scott, Director

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