Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Brendan Gill

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

Nash, Ogden

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

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

William Shakespeare

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mark Hodder

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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

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

23.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

30.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Carson, Rachel