Life Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

255 Life Quotes
“The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.”
W.J. Davison Quotes
“The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.”
Omar Khyyam Quotes
“Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.”
Margaret Mitchell Quotes
“The first hundred years are the hardest.”
William Mizner Quotes
“Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.”
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt Quotes
“St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.”
Malcom Muggeridge Quotes
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
William Shakespeare, Macbeth Quotes
“The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”
Arthur Schopenauer Quotes
“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.”
Sir Walter Scott Quotes
“This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.”
Robert W. Service Quotes
“Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.”
Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.”
James Matthew Barrie Quotes
“Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.”
Dan Chopin Quotes
“Life is an incurable disease.”
Abraham Crowley Quotes
“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
A.e. Housman Quotes
“I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost.”
Kin Hubbard Quotes
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
Thomas La Mance Quotes
“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.”
Thomas Walker Quotes
“There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.”
Maurice Sendak Quotes
“Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child.”
Julia Child Quotes
“In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.”
Horace Quotes
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
James Matthew Barrie Quotes
“O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.”
Robert Burns Quotes
“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”
Sebastien Chamfort Quotes
“Real life seems to have no plots.”
Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes