Life Quotes

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. Davies
Leisure

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates…you never know what you're gonna get.
Forrest Gump
Spoken by Tom Hanks in movie Forrest Gump

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson

When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life.
Monty Python's Life of Brian

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Chinese Proverb

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
Charlie Brown

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. Laing

Life's a bitch and then you die.
Nas (Nasir Jones)
Life's a Bitch, from American rapper's debut album Illmatic.

The Best Things in Life are Free.
B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson
Song from the Musical 'Good News'.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Mr. Spencer.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Macbeth, 5. 5

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
Thunder on the Left

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson

Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
Irish Saying

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden

Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon

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

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno
From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas

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

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries

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

Life is just a bowl of pits.
Rodney Dangerfield

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J. Tillman

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

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

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally 'Famous' Amos

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman
The Princess Bride

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
Jack Handey

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye

Where there is love there is life.
Indira Gandhi

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luthor King, Jr.

Live dangerously and you live right.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
Winnie the Pooh

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence S. Darrow

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson

Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Martin H. Fischer

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Thich Nhat Hanh

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Nelson Mandela

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Schulz

Life is nothing without friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
William Shakespeare