Life
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
- Anouilh, Jean
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
- Browning, Robert
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
- Butler, Samuel
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Carlyle, Thomas
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
- Cicero
Life is but thought.
- Coleridge, Samuel T.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
- Colton, Charles C.
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
- France, Anatole
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
- Goethe, Johann Von
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- Hazlitt, William
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
- Howe, Edgar Watson
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
- Kabbalah
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.
- Kafka, Franz
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
- Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat
Life's more amusing than we thought.
- Lang, Andrew
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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.
- Mencken, H.L.
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
- Millay, Edna Saint Vincent
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
- Mizner, Wilson
My trade and art is to live.
- Montaigne, Michel De
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive.
- Nagarjuna
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
- Nehru, Jawaharial
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
- Paracelsus
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
- Pythagoras
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
- Rieff, Philip
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
- Robinson, Edwin A.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Rogers, Will
I\'m passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings--iT\'s All A Miracle.
- Rubinstein, Arthur
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
- Seneca
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
- Seneca
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
- Seneca
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
- Sivananda
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
- Sivananda
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Never rail at the world, it is just as we make it,- We see not the flower if we sow not the seed; And as for ill-luck, why, it's just as we take it,- The heart that's in earnest no bars can impede.
- Swain, Charles
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup.
- Teasdale, Sara
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
- Thurber, James
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
- Upanishads
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Wilde, Oscar
