life quotes

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

What 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.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Actor’s life is very long.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.