Motivational Quotes

Life

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Pliny The Elder

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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 essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Field, Joanna

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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

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

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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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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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 always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)