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Life112 quotes
Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? — Vincent van Gogh · 1881Everything that lives,
Lives not alone, nor for itself. — William Blake · 1789They lived und laughed ant loved end left. — James Joyce · 1939Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin · 1941All 112 quotes →Nature of life24 quotes
Everything that lives,
Lives not alone, nor for itself. — William Blake · 1789Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. — T.S. Eliot · 1932Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. · 1911The history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way. — Michael Crichton · 1953If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. — Jacques Barzun · 1959Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. — Allen Saunders · 1957All 24 quotes →Living life to the fullest15 quotes
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin · 1941Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Remember those posters that said, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life'? Well, that's true of every day except one, the day you die. — Lester Burnham · 1999To live...to live would be an awfully big adventure. — Peter Banning · 1991Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht · 1931All 15 quotes →The human condition13 quotes
One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour. — Oscar Wilde · 1880One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. — Ecclesiastes 1:4 · 931 BCTo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891I'll tell you a big secret mon cher. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. — Albert Camus · 1956O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I! — Robert Burns · 1786They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett · 1953All 13 quotes →Death11 quotes
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht · 1931Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1873The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1658All 11 quotes →Ephemeral nature of life8 quotes
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 · 1616All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. — 1st Peter 1:24 · 65One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. — Ecclesiastes 1:4 · 931 BCYou do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. — James 4:14 · 49They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett · 1953Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset. — H. Rider Haggard · 1885All 8 quotes →Life and death6 quotes
Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1873The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1658Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid. — Langston Hughes · 1936If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping. — Dr. Nicholas Garrigan · 2006Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at it while it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud. — Yann Martel · 2001Shortness of life6 quotes
You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. — James 4:14 · 49Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1873They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett · 1953Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark-a shining space
With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace. — Robert Graves · 1929Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset. — H. Rider Haggard · 1885Life consists of two dates with a dash in between... Make the dash count. — Stuart Scott · 2014Passage of time5 quotes
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller · 1986Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon · 1980I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Oh, what a day-to-day business life is. — Jules Laforgue · 1885Purpose of life5 quotes
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare? — W.H. Davies · 1911Don't be in a hurry. You'll miss the best parts in life. — Saloon hostess · 1956Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good looking? — Derek Zoolander · 2001All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler (novelist) · 1902We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion and medicine, law, business, engineering. These are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — John Keating · 1989Living well4 quotes
Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires that we should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Life is long if you know how to use it. — Seneca · 49Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have liv'd light in the spring,
To have lov'd, to have thought, to have done. — Matthew Arnold · 1852Absurdity of life3 quotes
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 · 1616Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life. Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die. — The Verve · 1997That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. — George Santayana · 1905Aging3 quotes
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? — Ernest Hemingway · 1926I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall · 1988Being present3 quotes
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. — Allen Saunders · 1957I'll tell you a big secret mon cher. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. — Albert Camus · 1956I'm a little bit, you know, seat of my pants, I try to be alert and available... For life to happen to you. We're living this life, we’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it... But if you’re available, then life gets huge... You're really living it. — Bill Murray · 2014Carpe diem3 quotes
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? — Henry James · 1903Challenges of life3 quotes
O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I! — Robert Burns · 1786Just have one more try-it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard. — Robert W. Service · 1912Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and a little to be enjoyed. — Samuel Johnson · 1759Fear of death3 quotes
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht · 1931The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1658If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping. — Dr. Nicholas Garrigan · 2006Living in the moment3 quotes
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon · 1980A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. — Ecclesiastes 8:15 · 931 BCHe will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine." — Horace · 23 BCThe afterlife3 quotes
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost? — W.B. Yeats · 1910Were the happinesse of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1658Courage2 quotes
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? — Vincent van Gogh · 1881Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin · 1941Days2 quotes
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. — Annie Dillard · 1990What are days for?
Days are where we live. — Philip Larkin · 1964Decisions and choices2 quotes
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. — Learned Hand · 1939Enjoying life2 quotes
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. — Ecclesiastes 8:15 · 931 BCAh, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH... — Jack Kerouac · 1962Life as performance2 quotes
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 · 1616Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. — Arthur Rimbaud · 1873Love2 quotes
To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. — Samuel Butler (novelist) · 1902Life is a flower of which love is the honey. — Victor Hugo · 1862Meaning of life2 quotes
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. — George Santayana · 1905Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Slowing down2 quotes
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare? — W.H. Davies · 1911Don't be in a hurry. You'll miss the best parts in life. — Saloon hostess · 1956Spending time2 quotes
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. — Annie Dillard · 1990Oh, what a day-to-day business life is. — Jules Laforgue · 1885Taking risks2 quotes
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? — Vincent van Gogh · 1881I have learned how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life. Or from love, either. — Sabrina Fairchild · 1954Adaptability1 quote
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires that we should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected. — Marcus Aurelius · 180