Quotes by Authors - Page 145

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
Love is like pi - natural irrational and very important.
Lisa Hoffman
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Wayne W. Dyer
And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart that's Mary too not only the power inside you but the love. And when you get down to it Lily that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love - but to persist in love.
Sue Monk Kidd
What I cannot love I overlook.
Anaïs Nin
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Normal day let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you love you savour you bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may for it will not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth or bury my face in the pillow or stretch myself taut or raise my hands to the sky and want more than all the world your return.
Mary Jean Irion
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Margaret Mitchell
Oh how daily life is. (Ah que la vie est quotidienne.)
Jules Laforgue
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
Real life seems to have no plots.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Winston Churchill
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel Trilling
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen Leacock
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
T.S Eliot
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Thomas Hardy
Basically I'm interested in friendship sex and death.
Sharon Riis
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Merton
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell
If you're on the merry-go-round you have to go round.
Kent Thompson
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law
Life as it is called is for most of us one long postponement.
Henry Miller
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
Thomas la Mance
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S Eliot
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus
Unless you can find some sort of loyalty you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
Josiah Royce
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
Virginia Woolf
Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.
D.H. Lawrence
Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjöld
When the world has once begun to use us ill and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.
Jonathan Swift
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
Ernest Hemingway
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.
Henry Adams
The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.
John Morley
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
Frances Cornford
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams
Life is a handful of short stories pretending to be a novel.
Anonymous
Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe
If way to the Better there be it exacts a full look at the Worst.
Thomas Hardy
I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once.
Ashleigh Brilliant
I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.
F. McKinney Hubbard
Don't do things to not die do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
Bernie S. Siegel
Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there.
Henry James
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.
James Thurber
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
G.K. Chesterton
If your time hasn't come not even a doctor can kill you.
M. A. Perlstein
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge