Life Quotes and Sayings
Life is a long lesson in humility.
Jamės M. Barrie
Life is the game that must be played.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Life is a cement trampoline.
Howard Nordberg
It’s just life. Just live it.
Author Unknown
Life is an incurable Disease.
Abraham Cowley
There is no finish line.
Nike advertisement
The world is a sunny success.
Evėr Garrison
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
Thomas Jefferson
There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin
Life is one big judgment call.
Author Unknown
Life is simple, its just not easy.
Author Unknown
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
E.E. cummings
Life is a series of collisions with the future.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert-1651
A life without cause is a life without effect.
Barbarella
Life is not a final. It’s daily pop quizzes.
Author Unknown
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
Antonio Porchia
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
We’re all accidental soldiers in the army of life.
Ymber Delecto
Life is a long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
Moroccan Proverb
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius
I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.
Jack Handey
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.
Kathy Norris
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant
As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.
Author Unknown
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.
Author Unknown
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
Author Unknown
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.
Richard Bach
Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
Cherralea Morgen
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles Schulz
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson
We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.
Author Unknown
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Author Unknown
To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.
Jeremy Taylor
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.
Jim Carrey
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
John-Viscount Morley
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
Havelock Ellis
Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another.
Author Unknown
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Louis Adamic
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I am with you kid. Let’s go.”
Maya Angelou
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Why torture yourself when life’ll do it for you?
Author Unknown
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
Paul Eldridge
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
Antonio Porchia
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
W. Somerset Maugham
In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.
Diego Marchi
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Human life is purely a matter of deciding what’s important to you.
Anonymous
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.
Angelina Jolie
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Bruce Crampton
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
Mignon McLaughlin
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph Addison
Psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Schulz
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
Sherwood Anderson
Life is life, and death is life, and everything in between.
Cherralea Morgen
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man’s life.
Vita Sackville-West
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
William Lyon Phelps
In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.
Charlie Brown
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose.
Fred Allen
Not unfortunately the universe is wild – game-flavoured as a hawk’s wing.
B.P. Blood
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas Adams
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Learned Hand
Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus
Only a few things are really important.
Marie Dressler
Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.
Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Martin H. Fischer
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
Mignon McLaughlin
Life’s like a novel with the end ripped out.
Danny Orton & Blair Daly
If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
Huey Newton
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Nancy Willard
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.
William Lyon Phelps
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around.
David Lodge
If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
Confucius
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate.
R.D. Laing
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.
Stacy
Many of us are equal to life’s emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.
Mignon McLaughlin-1960
Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
James Gibbons Huneker
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.
A.A. Milne
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
Mignon McLaughlin
Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.
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To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
Timothy Fuller
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.
Luigi Pirandello
Life is a shit sandwich. But if you’ve got enough bread, you don’t taste the shit.
Jonathan Winters
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H.L. Mencken
Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
Agnes’ Law
Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.
Author Unknown
God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor
The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question.
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”
Erma Bombeck
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Chinese Proverb
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
Rupert Brooke
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizės sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
Jerome K. Jerome