Life Quotes

"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers"

Learned Hand, Judge

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39?"

Jim Fiebig, Businessman

"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes"

Susan Sontag, Author

"The drama is a great revealer of life"

George P. Baker

"Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"Reality continues to ruin my life"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing"

John Dyer, Artist

"The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life"

Plautus, Playwright

"A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole"

Plautus, Playwright

"Sometimes, all it takes is one person to believe in a child to change the course of their life"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life"

Edwin Markham, Poet

"When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do"

George Martin, Producer

"For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life"

Marcel Proust, Author

"I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way"

Sally Kellerman, Actress

"Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood"

Alice Meynell, Poet

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