Motivational Quotes

Life

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Life

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Woody Allen

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Pliny The Elder

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna