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Philosophical literature9 quotes
For every thing that lives is Holy. — William Blake · 1794And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. — Lucretius · 55 BCThe 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 · 180The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. — Alan Watts · 1982I'll tell you a big secret mon cher. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. — Albert Camus · 1956That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. — George Santayana · 1905All 9 quotes →Drama8 quotes
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers. — Mason Sr. · 2014Every day above ground is a good day. — Bernstein · 1983It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004We 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 · 1989All 8 quotes →Drama (film)8 quotes
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers. — Mason Sr. · 2014Every day above ground is a good day. — Bernstein · 1983It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004We 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 · 1989All 8 quotes →Religious literature8 quotes
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. — Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 · 931 BCDeath 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 · 2007All 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 · 49The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. — Alan Watts · 1982All 8 quotes →Autobiography and memoir5 quotes
Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. — Bob Dylan · 2004Ultimately, 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 · 1946Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be. — Grandma Moses · 1951Life consists of two dates with a dash in between... Make the dash count. — Stuart Scott · 2014Comedy drama2 quotes
Remember 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 · 1999I 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 · 1954Comedy drama (film)2 quotes
Remember 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 · 1999I 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 · 1954Coming of age story2 quotes
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999Trifles make the sum of life. — Charles Dickens · 1850Modernist literature2 quotes
They lived und laughed ant loved end left. — James Joyce · 1939They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett · 1953Pop music2 quotes
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon · 1980I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and ev'ry highway
And more, much more than this. I did it my way. — Frank Sinatra · 1969Rock music2 quotes
Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life. Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die. — The Verve · 1997Don’t worry where we end up. Ending-up’s not real. The life we build, we never stop creating. — Jimmy Eat World · 2019Romantic drama2 quotes
It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004Romantic drama (film)2 quotes
It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004Scientific literature2 quotes
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1989Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. — James Jeans · 1930Teen2 quotes
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller · 1986We 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 · 1989Teen (film)2 quotes
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller · 1986We 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 · 1989Tragedy (play)2 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 theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Action1 quote
Life, uh, finds a way. — Malcolm · 1993Action (film)1 quote
Life, uh, finds a way. — Malcolm · 1993Adventure1 quote
To live...to live would be an awfully big adventure. — Peter Banning · 1991Adventure (film)1 quote
To live...to live would be an awfully big adventure. — Peter Banning · 1991Adventure comedy1 quote
Don't be in a hurry. You'll miss the best parts in life. — Saloon hostess · 1956Adventure comedy (film)1 quote
Don't be in a hurry. You'll miss the best parts in life. — Saloon hostess · 1956Adventure novel1 quote
Out 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 · 1885Black comedy1 quote
Remember 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 · 1999Black comedy (film)1 quote
Remember 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 · 1999Comedy1 quote
Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good looking? — Derek Zoolander · 2001Comedy (film)1 quote
Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good looking? — Derek Zoolander · 2001Coming of age1 quote
You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers. — Mason Sr. · 2014Coming of age (film)1 quote
You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers. — Mason Sr. · 2014