Life Quotes

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patie...

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the produ...

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye...

One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or mome...

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he doe...

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can p...

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion...

The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes ar...

If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure tha...

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overc...

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is...

All that is gold does not glitter...

And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowl...

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one'...

I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the ...

And this new air was so delicious, and all his old life seemed so far away, that he forgot for a mom...

Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at a...

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill a...

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understandi...

Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and st...

I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and...

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life...

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Pr...

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for ...

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-cul...

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no me...

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of ...

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to lear...

Life is about timing.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity...

The suppression of uncomfortable ideasmay be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path...

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to ...

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so m...

All that we have seen is something of a vast and intricate and lovely universe. There is no particul...

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us ...

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million t...

The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perha...

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain...

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the war...

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There ...

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.

We make our purpose.

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional p...

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.

A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we fin...

Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLe...

The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a...

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and ...

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and...

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for...

Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to fi...

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone ...

The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looki...

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in whic...

It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, y...

We all give up great expectations along the way.

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only ficti...

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dyi...

Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three mo...

Don Ricardo wanted a successor worthy of himself. Jorge would always be cocooned in the privileges o...

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we d...

as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive

The dead never go to their own funeral.

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown b...

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I ...

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, ...

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.

You were very serious,” her grandmother continued. “You had these big brown eyes and you were always...

If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.

The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there a...

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a gr...

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,...

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between,...

My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try...

If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes wi...

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fr...

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shad...

Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)