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Quotes About Life – Famous Life Quotes

Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Albert Einstein

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Anonymous

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Christopher Darlington Morley

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Amelia Burr

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Les Brown

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Anonymous

Lift not the painted veil which those who live, call life.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
Alan Bennett

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you’re in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get.
Robbert Oustin

Life is a long lesson in humility.
Jam�s 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.
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The world is a sunny success.
Ev�r 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.
Movie Quote Mansfield Park

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 priz�s sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
Jerome K. Jerome

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  1. admin says:

    All the world’s a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
    Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
    Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
    And shining morning face, creeping like snail
    Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
    Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
    Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
    Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
    Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
    Seeking the bubble reputation
    Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
    In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,
    With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
    Full of wise saws and modern instances;
    And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
    Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
    With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
    His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
    For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
    Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
    And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
    That ends this strange eventful history,
    Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
    Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
    William Shakespeare

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