Life Quotes

As you may or may not have realized, quotes about life
can be enormously suffocating, but some people feel compelled
to state them and others compelled to re-state them.
If you read a hundred life quotes, one or two may resonate
with you.

Maybe that one or two is listed here.


A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

All life is an experiment. The more experiments
you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting
go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

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

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help
create the fact.
William James

But now I have come to believe that the whole world
is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

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

Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve
inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very
effective therapist.
Karen Horney

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck
with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is the test to find whether your mission on
Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to
improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

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

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts
I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the
books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just
hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the
right regrets.
Arthur Miller

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself
to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of
your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea
that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius

The basic fact about human existence is not that
it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much
a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken

The great use of life is to spend it for something
that will outlast it.
William James

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

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Karen Horney

The price of anything is the amount of life you
exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin

There is only one difference between a long life
and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings

Wars and elections are both too big and too small
to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes
on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Lauryn Hill

What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong

When I stand before God at the end of my life,
I would hope that I would not have a single bit
of talent left, and could say,
"I used everything you gave me".
Erma Bombeck

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries
disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius