Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a dead-end street.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Southey, Robert

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

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Santayana, George

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

10.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

11.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

12.

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

13.

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

Norris, Kathleen

14.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

15.

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

Russell, Bertrand

16.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

17.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

18.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

19.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

20.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

21.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

22.

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)

23.

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

Nouwen, Henri

24.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

28.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

29.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

30.

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

31.

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

Simon, Neil

32.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

33.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

34.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

35.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

37.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Robert Heinlein

40.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

41.

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

Conrad, Joseph

42.

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

43.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

44.

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

Caesar, Sid

45.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

46.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

47.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

48.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

49.

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

Keller, Helen

50.

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