Quotes · Skopia

35 quotes

23 BC

★ 8.9

Film · Epic (film) · Historical drama (film) · Epic · Historical drama

Every man dies, not every man really lives.

William Wallace

Braveheart · 1995

★ 7.5

Film · Teen (film) · Drama (film) · Teen · Drama

Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

John Keating

Dead Poets Society · 1989

★ 7.2

Film · Prison drama (film) · Drama (film) · Prison drama · Drama

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

Andy Dufresne

The Shawshank Redemption · 1994

★ 7.2

Personal journal

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

1941

★ 7.0

Short story

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

Jack London

1916

★ 6.9

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

1916

★ 6.7

Hip hop

You only live once, that's the motto nigga YOLO

Drake

The Motto · 2011

★ 5.6

Play · Drama (play)

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

1903

★ 5.1

Essay · Religious literature

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

The Portable Atheist · 2007

★ 5.1

Novel

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 4.7

Novel

"Life is trouble," Zorba continued. "Death, no. To Live-do you know what that means? To undo your belt and look for trouble!"

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek · 1946

★ 4.4

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 3.8

Religious literature

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

1940

★ 3.8

Poem

A short life in the saddle, Lord! Not long life by the fire.

Louise Imogen Guiney

1893

★ 3.7

Film · Adventure (film) · Adventure

To live...to live would be an awfully big adventure.

Peter Banning

Hook · 1991

★ 3.7

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

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

American Beauty · 1999

★ 3.7

Play

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

1931

★ 3.6

Film · Dystopian (film) · Science fiction (film) · Dystopian · Science fiction

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy.

Dr. Eldon Tyrell

Blade Runner · 1982

★ 3.6

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

You gotta make life interesting like that cause the shit is flimsy. Life is flimsy. You…you think you’re gonna live, but ain’t nobody gon’ live forever.

Dave Chappelle

Killin' Them Softly · 2000

★ 3.6

Film · Animation (film) · Science fiction (film) · Animation · Science fiction

I don't want to survive, I want to live!

Captain B. McCrea

WALL-E · 2008

★ 3.6

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

I'd rather die drunk, broke at 34 and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober at 90 and nobody remember who I was.

Andrew

Whiplash · 2014

★ 3.5

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

George Chapman

The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron · 1608

★ 3.5

Song · Pop music

I'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

My Way · 1969

★ 3.5

Poem

When it's over I don't want to wonder If I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Mary Oliver

When Death Comes · 1992

★ 3.5

Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

I 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

Sabrina · 1954

★ 2.9

Essay

Whenever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.8

Philosophical literature

Life is long if you know how to use it.

Seneca

On the Shortness of Life · 49

★ 2.2

Essay

Living is my job and my art.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.1

Novel

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 2.1

Essay

The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.0

Novel · Magazine

Realize your youth while you have it... Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 2.0

Poem

Is 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

Empedocles on Etna · 1852

★ 1.9

Novel · Magazine

Live 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

North American Review · 1903

★ 1.9

Interview

I'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

2014

★ 1.9

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