life quotes

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

There 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.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Our life is made by the death of others.

My life is my message.

My life is mine to remember.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

There is nothing permanent except change.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.