Motivational Quotes

Life

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

- Antrim, Minna

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

10.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

11.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

12.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

20.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

23.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

24.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

25.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

33.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

34.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

38.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

43.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

45.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.