1,037 Quotes Regarding Life


Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Cicero

Life is but thought.
Samuel T. Coleridge

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.
Charles C. Colton

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
Jean Anouilh

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Johann Von Goethe

Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Von Goethe

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
Edgar Watson Howe

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.
Franz Kafka

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.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

Life's more amusing than we thought.
Andrew Lang

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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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!
Edna Saint Vincent Millay

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
Wilson Mizner

My trade and art is to live.
Michel De Montaigne

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.
Jawaharial Nehru