Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Norris, Kathleen

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Samuel Butler

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

Gable, Clark

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Field, Joanna

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Herold, Don

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall