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222 Quotes for 'Life' in the Database.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
Author: William Butler Yeats
Source: None
Mankind makes living contradictory.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Author: Henry Van Dyke
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. -Samuel Ullman.
Author: Samuel Ullman
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All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
Source: None
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Author: William James
Source: None
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
All of us have our troubles. But no matter how unhappy we are, life has to carry on.
Author: Lame Ger
Source: None
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.
Author: Erich Fromm
Source: None
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Source: None
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Source: None
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert Humphrey.
Author: Hubert Humphrey
Source: None
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -George Bernard Shaw.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. -Kurt Vonnegut.
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Source: None
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. -Groucho Marx.
Author: Groucho Marx
Source: None
Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
Author: John Barrymore
Source: None
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Author: Winston Churchill
Source: None
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Author: T.s. Eliot
Source: None
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Author: John Keats
Source: None
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Author: Carl Sandburg
Source: None
The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. -Pericles.
Author: Pericles
Source: None
All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
At the camel auction slaughterhouse the camel lot the rejected creatures see no Camelot.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
Author: Elizabeth Kubler-ross
Source: None
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Author: Henry Adams
Source: None
Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.
Author: Marcus Aurelius Antonius
Source: None
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
Source: None
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
Author: Henry Miller
Source: None
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Author: Eugene O'neill
Source: None
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Source: None
Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get. -Robbert Oustin.
Author: Robbert Oustin
Source: None
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: None
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
Author: E. E. Cummings
Source: None
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Author: Charles Schulz
Source: None
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Source: None
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
Author: Khalil Gibran
Source: None
The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth dyeing for. Because in the end, before that final moment, is it not the moments of your life that flash before you?
Author: Paul Acquasanta
Source: None
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.
Author: Fr. Alfred D'souza
Source: None
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Author: Lillian Dickson
Source: None
My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Source: None

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