life quotes

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.