Life quotes

Life

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

- Santayana, George

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

- Boris Pasternak

He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

- Warhol, Andy

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

- Franklin, Benjamin

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

- Eiseley, Loren

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

- Dag Hammarskjold

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.

- Josephine Hart

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

- Clurman, Harold

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I gave my life to be the person I am today. Was it worth it?

- Richard Bach

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I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

- Stephen Leacock

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Common sense is calculation applied to life.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

- Johnson, Samuel

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A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

- Jawaherlal Nehru

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Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

- Thomas Jefferson

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I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.

- Sara Zarr

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

- Shaw, George Bernard