Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Orben, Robert

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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