Life Quotes


Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author 

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying
T.S.Eliot (1888-1965) Anglo American poet

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.
Alfred north whitehead (1861-1947) British philosopher

Living is my profession and my art.
Michel de montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh, and we shall not know then that we are dead. Live, then as if you were eternal.
Andre Maurois (1885-1967) French author

May you live all the days of your life
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo Irish satirist

There’s night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there’s likewise a wind on the health. Life is very sweet brother; who would wish to die?
George Borrow (1803-1881) English author

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport
Gloucester, King Lear William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist,poet

The meaning of life is that it stops.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) German author

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
G.K.Chesterton (1874-1936) British author

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; Signifying nothing.
Macbeth, Macbeth William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet

A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, dramatist

We should kick and struggle and determine to live as long as we can. For however long we live, we shall feel at the last that we have not got half the things into life that we ought to have done.
Benjain Jowett (1817-1893) English scholar, essayist

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Welsh poet

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no answer over the sand in the hour glass.
Hester Piozzi (Mrs.Thrale) (1741-1821) English writer

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be four score years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Bible, Psalms

Droll thing life is – that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself – that comes too late a crop of unextinguishable regrets.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) English novelist

Living is a sickness from which sleep provides relied every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.
Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, wit

When I hear somebody sight that “Life is hard” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”
Sydney J.Harris (1917-1986) American journalist

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American Statesman, writer

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Dr. oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, physician

Every man’s life is a plan of God.
Horace Bushnell

One life; a little gleam of time between two eternities; no second chance for us forever more.
Carlyle

God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste that lifts him into life, and lets him fall in just the niche he was ordained to fill.Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure. It is serious business,
to by entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
De. Tocqueville.

This outer world is but the pictured scroll of worlds within the soul; a colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, wherein who rightly look may spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, and steer to Paradise.
Alfred Noyes.

It is not necessary to live, but to carve our names beyond that point, this is necessary.
Gabriele d’ Annunzio.

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
William james.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler 

Every man’s life is a fairy tale, written by God’s fingers.
Hans Christian Anderson

Life is activity, hence the deep seated objections to negations
James T.Adams

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he hoped to make it.
James M.Barrie.

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
Theodore Roosevelt

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