Life (156 quotes)
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
– Ashley Montague.
The body of B. Franklin, Printer (Like the Cover of an Old book Its Contents torn out And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding)
Lies Here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be Lost; For it will (as he Believ’d) Appear Once More In a New and More Elegant Edition Revised and Corrected By the Author.
– Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), writing his own epitaph (which was not used).
What’s the point of living life in the fear of dying?
-Unknown. As soon as you’re born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time.
-Unknown. No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.
-Unknown. If fame comes after death, then I’m in no hurry for it.
– Martial. I want to live forever, but only for a little while.
-Unknown. If you live without feeling the need to change, or the courage to make the change, then you merely exist.
– Brandon Abernathy. What lies behind us and what lies beyond us is nothing compared to what lies within us.
– Kelly Foy. You gotta love livin’, baby, ’cause dyin’ is a pain in the ass!
– Frank Sinatra. 1915-1998 Why build knowing destruction is inevitable, why yearn live knowing all things must die?
– Franz Kafka. 1883-1924 In my belief, death is nothing to be feared. It is mearly a stage of transition. But life without hope… that’s living hell.
– “The X-Files” Life is mostly froth and bubble, but two things stand like stone, kindness in another’s trouble and courage in your own.
– Princess Diana. 1961-1997 What you do in life echoes in eternity.
– “The Gladiator” Fate is what life give you, and destiny is what you do with it.
-Unknown. Don’t take life too seriously. It’s only temporary.
-Unknown. The only peace which lasts forever is the peace of death.
– Greg Kovas. Life is like a car: When it is most needed, it breaks down.
– Lune. The best and most beatiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched, but are felt in the heart.
-Unknown. There is no wonder why we die, the wonder is why we persist in living.
-Unknown. The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
– John Vance Cheney. People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-Unknown. Jealousy is no more than feeling alone among smiling enemies.
– Elizabeth Bowen. 1899-1973 To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
-Unknown. Life is never so bad at its worst that it is impossible to live; it is never so good at its best that it is easy to live.
– Gabriel Heatter. 1890-1972 If life is a waste of time and time a waste of life then let’s all get wasted together and have the time of our lives.
-Unknown. It can’t rain all the time.
– Brandon Lee. 1965-1993 I can sum up everything I have learned about life in three words: It goes on.
– Robert Frost. 1879-1963 There is no greater reward in life than the sight of a shining smile, after a waterfall of tears, and knowing that you were in part responsible for the transition.
– Andrew Post. The world is headed for mutiny, when all we want is unity. We may rise and fall, but in the end, we’ll meet our fate together.
– “One” What’s the point in living life in the fear of dying?
-Unknown. Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you’re still alive, it isn’t.
– Richard Bach. Life is too short to be pissed off all the time.
– “American History X” To live is to dream, to die is to awaken.
-Unknown. There are some chapters in a book that are very sad and painful, but they are the ones that you always like to read again and again.
– Brad Elliott. All of life’s big problems include the words “indictment” or “inoperable.” Everything else is small stuff.
– Alton Brown. 1962- How we spend each day, of course, is how we spend our lives.
-Unknown. Life is like the sun; it rises and sets every day.
– Ben Codjoe. Life sucks, so get off your ass and make it better!
– Dustin Gregg. Life begins at birth; the rest is up to our imagination.
– Infoism. Life is an equation. Sometimes you can change the variables.
– Shawn Ogawa. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
-Unknown. I do not regret the things I’ve done, but rather those I did not do.
-Unknown. The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief, but gratitude.
-Unknown. I think I have found the hardest part about moving forward, is not looking back.
– Ann Rinaldi. Death becomes clearer through bloodshot eyes.
– Trevor Kinblom. If life’s not fair and we know it, then why do people complain?
– Lee Alt. 1985- Regret not that your thoughts cannot speak for your past, but rather take action, and make it history for tomorrow.
– C.W. Yung. Life’s a journey, not a destination.
– Steven Tyler. To live is to suffer, and to survive, well that’s to find out the meaning in the suffering.
-Unknown. Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
– Oscar Wilde. 1854-1900 Drama is life with the dull bits left out.
– Sir Alfred Hitchcock. 1899-1980 Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
– Mark Twain. 1835-1910 You see things as they are and say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”
– George Bernard Shaw. 1856-1950 People avoid change until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing.
-Unknown. It is not the pace of life that scares me, it is the sudden stop at the end.
-Unknown. Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.
– President Theodore Roosevelt. 1858-1919 Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
– President Theodore Roosevelt. 1858-1919 Life will teach you the lessons, it is up to you to learn them.
-Unknown. A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
– Washington Irving. 1783-1859 I don’t know what I want, and I won’t be happy until I get it.
-Unknown. Life is a daring adventure, or it is nothing.
-Unknown. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
– Mark Twain. 1835-1910 No matter where you go, there you are.
– Douglas Adams. 1952- If you don’t know where you are going, you may end up someplace else.
-Unknown. Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being.
– Johann. In the football game of life, I was born a wide reciever with no arms.
– Brent Rangen, Sr. The only things you live to regret are the risks you didn’t take.
-Unknown. Every shut-eye ain’t sleep, and every goodbye ain’t gone.
– Marvin Rucker. The more people I meet, the more I like my cat.
-Unknown. If man could live forever, he’d still be a fish. Why would he evolve? He could always do it later.
– Aki Soga. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
– Danny Kaye. 1913-1987 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
– Aldous Huxley. 1894-1963 It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
– Confucius. 551-479 B.C. Fortunately, psychoanalysisis not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
– Karen Horney. 1885-1952 Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
– Mark Twain. 1835-1910 What’s left to do after your life exceeds your dreams?
– Cindy Walsh. Good things happen when you least expect them to.
– Jessica Knutson. Until you have lived, you are not living.
– Anthony Kusske. May you have just enough clouds in your life to be left with a beautiful sunset.
-Unknown. To be happy, you must first make others happy.
– Swedish Proverb. Travel light in life. Take only what you need: a loving family, good friends, simple pleasures, someone to love, and someone to love you; something to eat, enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink for thirst is a dangerous thing.
-Unknown. When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion, and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge.
– Dorothy Jongward. The forest is magnificent, yet it contains no perfect trees.
– Gye Fram. All our lives we sweat and save, building for a shallow grave.
– James Douglas Morrison. Never take life too seriously; after all, no one gets out of it alive.
-Unknown. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
– Antoine de Saint-ExupŽry. 1900-1944 The way the world looks depends on how you’re sitting.
-Unknown. Life is like nothing I’ve ever seen.
– Arthur Penn. Life is what happens while we’re busy making other plans.
– John Lennon. 1940-1980 We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
– Cullen Hightower. We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
– Syrus. Some mornings it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
– Need. The sin is not falling down, but staying down.
-Unknown. Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1803-1882 Respect cannot be learned, purchased, or acquired; it can only be earned.
– “Bits & Pieces” The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe that the best is yet to come.
– Sir Peter Ustinov. 1921- You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
– Woody Allen. 1935- A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.
– Bacharach. Civilization is a little citadel of light in a malignant sea of darkness.
– W.H. Auden. 1907-1973 Life is a swirling eddy of despair in an ever blackening universe.
-Unknown. I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
– MacIver. To live will be the greatest adventure of all.
– Banning. Life is a joke that’s just begun.
– Gilbert. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
– William Shakespeare. 1564-1616 We’re all in this alone.
– Lily Tomlin. 1939- Life is far too serious a thing to ever talk seriously about.
– Oscar Wilde. 1854-1900 Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
– Livy. 59 B.C.-17 A.D. There’s none so blind as they won’t see.
– Swift. A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
– Muhammad Ali. 1942- Is life worth living? That depends on the liver.
-Unknown. Every man dies; not every man really lives.
– “Braveheart” Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
– John Stuart Mill. 1806-1873 The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
– Albert Ellis. 1913- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
– Helen Keller. 1880-1968 What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
– Adam Smith. 1723-1790 Life’s a lesson; you learn it when you’re through.
– Fred Durst. If you wish to draw tears from me you must first feel pain yourself. Si vis me fleke dolendum est primum upsi tibi.
-Unknown. You never know when you’re making a memory.
– Jen Perott. However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
– Henry David Thoreau. 1817-1862 The last thing a man does is the last thing a man wants to do!
– Paul Newman. Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
– John Barth. Living a good life and living the good life are not the same thing.
-Unknown. It’s better to burn out than to fade away.
– Kurt Cobain. 1967-1994 As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.
– Katherine Mansfield. 1888-1923 Life is nothing but an animated form of death.
-Unknown. Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.
– Sherwood Anderson. 1876-1941 The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
– Michel de Montaigne. 1533-1592 When you were born, everyone around was smiling and you were the one crying. Live life so that when you die, everyone around you is crying and you are the one smiling.
-Unknown. Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and always fatal.
– Noah George. If you care about what people think about you, how will you ever know how you feel about you?
– Rebecca Fisher. To live is to suffer, but to survive well that’s to find meaning in the suffering
– “DMX” I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
– Willa Cather. 1875-1947 A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
– Baltasar Graci‡n. 1601-1658 The hardest part about moving on is never looking back.
– Dawson Leary. I never knew how someone dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand.
– Mickey Mantle. 1931-1955 One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.
– Count Leo Tolstoy. 1828-1910 A life without mistakes is a mistake within itself.
– Dustin Patte. Time is flying by and memories are pieces of time frozen in your mind forever for you to look at every day so you know how good and bad life can be.
– Christopher Lee Frey. When I hear someone say life is hard, I’m always tempted to say, “Compared to what?”
– . If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
– Morris West. 1916-1999 You’ll never see the stars if you are always looking down.
– . The ones for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
– Jack Kerouac. 1922-1969 Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and take a look around once in a while, you can miss it.
– “Ferris Beuller’s Day Off” The world is a book and those who stay at home read only one page.
– St. Augustine. 354-430 Big differences that can be worked out are less dangerous than small differences that can’t be.
– Thomas Sowell. Death makes angels of us all, gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens’ claws.
– Jim Morrison. 1943-1970 Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
– “The Princess Bride” I don’t need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.
– Eddie Vedder. Missing someone gets easier every day, because even though it’s one more day since you last saw them, it’s one less day until you will see them again.
– . If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing, you might find you’re missing all the rest.
– Dave Mathews. 1967- Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
– Groucho Marx. 1890-1977 You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.
– John Mason. It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another. It is the same damn thing over and over again.
– . You will never discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
– . When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
– Helen Keller. 1880-1968
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