Life Quotes

 Life Quotes and Messages

Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Andersen

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

Life Quotes

Life is simple, it’s just not easy. ~Author Unknown

A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella


Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t. ~Richard Bach
Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow. ~Terri Guillemets

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it. ~Jack Handey

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ~Christopher Morley,

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost

In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular. ~Kathy Norris
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. ~Antonio Porchia

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp
As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life — you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~Author Unknown

You can’t escape history, or the needs and neuroses you’ve picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson
We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown

Life is a cement trampoline. ~Howard Nordberg

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him. ~Jeremy

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. ~Jim Carrey
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ~John, Viscount Morley

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. ~Cary Grant

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ~Havelock Ellis

Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. ~Author Unknown

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ~Louis Adamic

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I am with you kid. Let’s go.” ~Maya Angelou
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Why torture yourself when life’ll do it for you? ~Author Unknown

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ~George Bernard Shaw

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren’t even good for you. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in. ~Dennis P. Costea, Jr.
…the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. ~Walt Whitman

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain

Life is the game that must be played. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson

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
There is no wealth but life. ~John Ruskin

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. ~Rupert Brooke

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. ~Jerome K. Jerome

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau
I’ve learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now. ~Robert Brault

Life is not a final. It’s daily pop quizzes. ~Author Unknown

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. ~Paul Eldridge

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot

Life was a damned muddle — a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of — everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Any idiot can face a crisis — it’s day to day living that wears you out. ~Anton Chekhov

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. ~Antonio Porchia

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. ~Frederick Buechner

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ~Robert Brault

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. ~W. Somerset Maugham

In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. ~Diego Marchi
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

I count life just a stuff
To try the soul’s strength on.
~Robert Browning

Today, fill your cup of life with sunshine and laughter. ~Dodinsky

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. ~Ashleigh Brilliant

Life is an incurable Disease. ~Abraham Cowley

Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful. ~Mike Dolan

The philosophy of mine earth can be summed as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others. ~Jessi Lane Adams

Human life is purely a matter of deciding what’s important to you. ~Anonymous

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ~Albert Camus

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ~Christopher Isherwood

I ask of life to shine meaning in everyone who is searching. ~Aurora Hernandez
The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. ~Angelina Jolie

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. ~Bruce Crampton

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. ~Mignon McLaughlin

In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.
~Elinor Hoyt Wylie

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~Reba McEntire

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ~Thomas Carlyle
I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. ~Robert Brault

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~Havelock Ellis

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. ~Antonio Porchia

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist. ~Karen Horney

Give us Lord, a bit o’ sun,
A bit o’ work and a bit o’ fun;
Give us all in the struggle and sputter
Our daily bread and a bit o’ butter.
~From an inn in Lancaster

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. ~Ovid

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ~Heywood Broun
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance. ~Author Unknown

Life is a long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler

I really enjoy life I’m just not good at it. ~Daniel

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb

The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I’ve made along the way. ~Antie Koekie

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. ~Robert Brault

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~Henry Ward Beecher

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore

Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ~George Bernard Shaw

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. ~Robert Brault

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. ~Robert Frost
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~Charles Schulz

There is no finish line. ~Nike advertisement

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ~Sherwood Anderson

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~Thomas Jefferson
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man’s life. ~Vita Sackville-West

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~William Lyon Phelps
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. ~James Russell Lowell

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. ~Robert Brault

In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. ~Charlie Brown
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen

Not unfortunately the universe is wild — game-flavoured as a hawk’s wing. ~B.P. Blood

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb

You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams

Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. ~Norman Mailer
Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions. ~Didier D’haese

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. ~Learned Hand

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. ~Henry David Thoreau

Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. ~Søren Kierkegaard

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B. ~Nelson DeMille

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. ~Robert Brault

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. ~Seneca

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. ~Antonio Porchia

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. ~Albert Einstein

I gave my life to learning how to live.
Now that I have organized it all…
It is just about over.
~Sandra Hochman

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. ~Robert Brault

Life is a horizontal fall. ~Jean Cocteau
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ~Dr. Seuss

Only a few things are really important. ~Marie Dressler

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. ~Mignon McLaughlin

The movement of life has to rest in its own music. ~Rabindranath Tagore

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~Henry Miller

Everything that occurs in your life is part of God’s plan to wake you up. ~Leonard Jacobson

Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little. ~Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock. ~Woody Allen

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically — that there are things we can break that our parents can’t fix. ~Robert Brault

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer

Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly. ~Terri Guillemets
Life has no auto-settings. No batteries. You gots to wind it up! ~Jeb Dickerson

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. ~Antonio Porchia

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Life’s like a novel with the end ripped out. ~Danny Orton and Blair Daly

If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ~Huey Newton

Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ~Nancy Willard

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand…. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. ~Phillips Brooks

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. ~Robert Brault

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. ~William Lyon Phelps

The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece. ~Vladimir Nabokov
The swing on your porch is a better liver of life than the chair in front of your computer. ~Terri Guillemets

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. ~Robert Brault

When everything doesn’t go perfectly as hoped, it isn’t tragedy — it’s life. ~Terri Guillemets

One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is four or five big days that change everything. ~Riding in Cars with Boys

Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. ~Author Unknown

When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all like, “What?!” ~”Phil’s-osophy” by Phil Dunphy

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around. ~David Lodge

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret. ~Confucius
To drink the sunshine and to dream at night…. ~Author Unknown, “The Fall of Man”

Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature’s grand design — do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things. ~Morihei Ueshiba

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ~Joseph Campbell

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. ~François Truffaut

You don’t want to get to the end of life’s journey and discover you never left the interstate. ~Robert Brault

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning. ~Stacy

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate. ~R.D. Laing

It’s just life. Just live it. ~Terri Guillemets

[L]ife is just like a big puzzle but you can’t look at it and focus, you’ve… just got to close your eyes and let it come together. ~Corey Miller

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Live for the roots
Love the green
Dance with the blossoms
~Terri Guillemets

[L]ife is a journey and not a destination… the heart must be set upon those matters of character which are eternal and not upon those matters of sensation which pass away. ~Lynn H. Hough

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. ~Robert Brault

Many of us are equal to life’s emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. ~James Gibbons Huneker

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. ~Ogden Nash
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. ~A.A. Milne

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made silently. ~Agnes de Mille

The way my life goes, I can’t tell if there are pits in my cherries or cherries among my pits, philosophically speaking. ~Rhann Morgan

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives. ~Robert Brault

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled. ~Mike Dolan

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. ~Henry Van Dyke

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Shall I redirect my life’s journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I’m entitled to? ~Robert Brault

Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you’ll ever commit. ~Robert Brault

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.” ~From the movie Mansfield Park

Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ~Anton Chekhov

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~Samuel Butler

Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ~Kathleen Norris

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain
Our search should not be a flight from life. ~TKV Desikachar
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Life’s a party. Invite yourself. ~Gary Johnson

You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you can realize that your life is the miracle. ~Robert Brault

One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him. ~Lemony Snicket

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. ~Baker Brownell

Life is not like a box of chocolates. It’s more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow. ~Author Unknown

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ~José Ortega y Gasset
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. ~Peter De Vries

Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. ~Mignon McLaughlin

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. ~Antonio Porchia

Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets. ~Terri Guillemets

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart. ~H. Ross Perot

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life. ~Friedrich Hegel

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man’s existence. ~Joseph Wood Krutch

Life is one big judgment call. (And a neverending series of little ones.) ~Terri Guillemets
Lifeless with a heartbeat. ~Daniel
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~Timothy Fuller

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes. ~Luigi Pirandello

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. ~Peggy Noonan
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

Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. ~Agnes’ Law

Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~Ovid

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

Life is a series of collisions with the future. ~José Ortega y Gasset

To the student I would say, “Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there’s a tough essay question.” ~Robert Brault

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ~Marcus Aurelius

Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert

When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that. ~Author Unknown

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you’ll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can’t stand it. ~Barbara Kingsolver

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust — we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~Albert Einstein

After a lifetime of deep thought, I’ve decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. ~Robert Brault

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils…. all great, powerful souls love life. ~Heinrich

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~Dennis Wholey

Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare


What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ~Crowfoot

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on. ~Robert Brault

Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? ~Jean Anouilh

Life is great. Don’t let circumstances and society fool you into believing it’s not. ~Terri Guillemets
God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny. ~Garrison Keillor

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive. ~e.e. cummings

The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question. ~Terri Guillemets

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up. ~Robert Brault

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you’re a portrait in the background. ~Robert Brault