life quotes

Every loss of life is terrible.

A useless life is an early death.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I love life because what more is there?

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

My life is real.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Apart 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.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘