Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice WalkerLife is a matter of really tough choices.
Joe BidenLife has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul SartreHappiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph AddisonThere is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert CamusYou 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.
Albert CamusI have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius CaesarDeath to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Bob DylanA chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife is a lively process of becoming.
Douglas MacArthurI have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan PoeLife is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen KellerI mean… in life… what relationship is easy?
The WeekndLife is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar WildeWe spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThis is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
Elon MuskLife is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.
Robert KiyosakiI have nothing to declare except my genius.
Oscar WildeNo great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
Clint EastwoodGenius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
Wayne DyerThere is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
John F. KennedyYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. RowlingThe bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWe never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VoltaireJesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.
Paulo CoelhoIt’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
Jordan PetersonI want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
Lady GagaThere is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar WildeThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus AureliusLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil GibranMan alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel JohnsonI live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinThere is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack LondonYouth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
AristotleI’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret AtwoodIt is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas JeffersonI don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
Paul AusterOne can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar WildeThough the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhen you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.
Audrey HepburnI have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
Maya AngelouSearching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
Jimmy BuffettThe devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert EinsteinIf you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.
Henny YoungmanThe figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert FrostApart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
Nelson MandelaI never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.
Angelina JolieNine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. MenckenGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWe will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.
Narendra ModiThere is no wealth but life.
John RuskinAffection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. LewisSuch is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel JohnsonMen of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci