QUOTATIONS ABOUT LIFE

Quotations about Life

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.


The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb.


Life is simple, its just not easy. ~Author Unknown.


Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin.


I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes


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


Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. ~Marion Howard


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






Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson


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. ~Erich Fromm


No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November 1838






Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. ~Samuel Johnson


I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. ~Rupert Brooke


Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. ~Jerome K. Jerome


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


Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ~Robert Brault,


Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ~Christopher Isherwood


The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. ~Angelina Jolie


Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. ~Bruce Crampton






We're all accidental soldiers in the army of life. ~Ymber Delecto


Life is a long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler


He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb


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, Foucault's Pendulum


God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~Henry Ward Beecher


ut of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. ~Albert Einstein


I gave my life to learning how to live.
Now that I have organized it all...
It is just about over.
~Sandra Hochman







It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. ~Phillips Brooks


ife always bursts the boundaries of formulas. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning. ~Stacy


When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. ~Thomas Merton