101 Quotes About Life

1. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.  –Charles Darwin
2. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. –Henry Ellis
4. Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.  –Anton Chekhov
5. A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. –James Allen
6. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. –William James
7. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. –Buddha
8. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. –Mark Twain
9. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. –Henry David Thoreau
10. Every man dies. Not every man really lives. –William Wallace
11. Everything has been figured out, except how to live. –Jean-Paul Sartre
12. Everything in life is luck. –Donald Trump
13. Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. –Karen Horney
14. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. –Friedrich Nietzsche
15. Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. — Richard Bach
16. I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. –E. B. White
17. I do not regret one moment of my life. –Lillie Langtry
18. I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
19. I love life because what more is there. –Anthony Hopkins
20. I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. –John Burroughs
21. I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living. –Ursula Andress
22. I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it. –Charles M. Schulz
23. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. –Robert Frost
24. It is not length of life, but depth of life. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. –Philip Green
26. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. –Josh Billings
27. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. –George Bernard Shaw
28. Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. –Antoine de Saint-Exupery
29. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. –Sholom Aleichem
30. Life is a long lesson in humility. –James M. Barrie
31. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. –Truman Capote
32. Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. –Jose Ortega y Gasset
33. Life is half spent before we know what it is. –George Herbert
34. Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. –Miguel Angel Ruiz
35. Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. –Abraham Cahan
36. Life is never easy for those who dream. –Robert James Waller
37. Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep. –Fran Lebowitz
38. Life is wasted on the living. –Douglas Adams
39. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. –Karen Horney
40. Life must be lived as play. –Plato
41. Life well spent is long. –Leonardo da Vinci
42. Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive. –Mel Brooks
43. May you live all the days of your life. –Jonathan Swift
44. Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. –Arthur Miller
45. My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. –CaryGrant
46. My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past. –Hugh Leonard
47. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. –Harvey Fierstein
48. Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. –Brendan Gill
49. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. –Socrates
50. Only a few things are really important. –Marie Dressler
51. People living deeply have no fear of death. –Anais Nin
52. The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. –Marcus Aurelius
53. 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. –H. L. Mencken
54. The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. –William Lyon Phelps
55. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. –William James
56. The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. –E. M. Forster
57. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. –Henry David Thoreau
58. The purpose of life is a life of purpose. –Robert Byrne
59. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. –Carl Jung
60. There is no wealth but life. –John Ruskin
61. There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. –Robert Louis Stevenson
62. This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. –William James
63. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. –Henry David Thoreau
64. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. –Emily Dickinson
65. Unbeing dead isn’t being alive. –E. E. Cummings
66. Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. –Karl A. Menninger
67. Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. –George Bernard Shaw
68. Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up. –Barbara Kingsolver
69. We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. –Lauryn Hill
70. We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. –Max de Pree
71. What we play is life. –Louis Armstrong
72. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’. –Erma Bombeck
73. When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. — Mark Twain
74. Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. — Erich Fromm
75. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. — Albert Camus
76. Your life is what your thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
77. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. –Albert Einstein
78. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. –Annie Dillard
79. If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler. –Louis D. Brandeis
80. Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be. –Jeremy Schwartz
81. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. –Leonardo da Vinci
82. Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. –Grace Hansen
83. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. –George Bernard Shaw
84. All men think all men mortal but themselves. –Edward Young
85. A person starts dying when they stop dreaming. –Brian Williams
86. After the first death, there is no other. –Dylan Thomas
87. Every man dies – Not every man really lives. –William Ross Wallace
88. One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation. –Oscar Wilde
89. Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. –Ann Landers
90. Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you plan to stop peddling. –Claude Pepper
91. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. –Josh Billings
92. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. –Thomas Edison
93. If you stop struggling, then you stop life. –HueyNewton
94. Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t. –Richard Bach
95. Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours? –Roy H. Williams
96. Life is just a chance to grow a soul. –A. Powell Davies
97. Our lives are like a candle in the wind. –Carl Sandburg
98. Life is the game that must be played. –Edwin Arlington Robinson
99. Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. –Carl Sandburg
100. Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. –Charles Schulz
101. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. –John Dewey