Life Quotes

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important...

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it...

[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has bec...

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both part...

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the ...

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was...

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are no...

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is ...

You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach y...

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

A kiss may ruin a human life

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The c...

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They...

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art ...

Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious...

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life...

. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that ...

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know ...

Men know life too early women know life too late.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and ...

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do...

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the in...

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is...

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be alwa...

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is n...

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined...

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist...

I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or prod...

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in ...

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dar...

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty t...

Life has always poppies in her hands.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no...

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that ex...

tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that bri...

The greatest events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one t...

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus...

The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people's i...

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I...

The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same...

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unl...

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged...

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unl...

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for ...

Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune it is also the basi...

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can u...

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning a...

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune it is also the basi...

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As lo...

I touched you and my life stopped

And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came ...

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can hav...

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but its always worth trying.

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance ...

At root, I think that any given technology (think nuclear power, gunpowder, the written word...) has...

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and...

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plas...

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, ...

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is ...

We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don'...

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...

I was in my early twenties and I was, to be quite honest, a bit of a punk. A swaggering entitled str...

You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you shoul...

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you of...

The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like ...

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been...

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all the...

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and k...

For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really...

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.