Life Quotes

» You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

» People living deeply have no fear of death.

» Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

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

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

» 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.

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

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

» My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

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

» Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

» Life is wasted on the living.

» 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.

» Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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

» Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

» 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".

» Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

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

» 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.

» Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

» Life is half spent before we know what it is.

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

» The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

» The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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

» 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.

» 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.

» Life is a long lesson in humility.

» Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

» 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.

» There is no wealth but life.

» May you live every day of your life.

» Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

» Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

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

» Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

» The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

» Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

» The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

» Only a few things are really important.

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

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

» Life loves the liver of it.

» Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

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

» It is not length of life, but depth of life.

» All life is an experiment.

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

» The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

» In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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

» Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

» 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.

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

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

» This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

» The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

» A mighty power and stronger. Man from his throne has hurled, for the hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand that rules the world.

» Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

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