Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

- Isaac Asimov

Best Quotes about Life

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Brodsky, Joseph

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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.

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Samuel Butler

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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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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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 two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Butler, Samuel

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a dead-end street.