life quotes

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Life well spent is long.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

We live in a bewildering world.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Life is precious.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.