Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Brendan Gill

10.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

11.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

12.

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

Marcos, Imelda

13.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

14.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

16.

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

17.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

18.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

19.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

20.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

21.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

22.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

23.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

24.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

25.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

26.

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

27.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

William Goldman

29.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

30.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

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

32.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

33.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

34.

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

35.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

36.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

37.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

38.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

39.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

40.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

41.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

42.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

46.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

47.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

48.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

50.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph