life quotes

Such 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.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

To be awake is to be alive.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Life is anything but predictable.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

The 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.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

What we live by we die by.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Art is the proper task of life.