Life Quotes - Page 5

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.

Marcus Aurelius

We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.

Voltaire

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

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.

Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T.S Eliot

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

O Life! thou art a galling load Along a rough a weary road to wretches such as I.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

Were the offer made true I would engage to run again from beginning to end the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author to correct in a second edition certain errors of the first.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Thomas la Mance

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

People in the West are always getting ready to live.

Chinese Proverb

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Life as it is called is for most of us one long postponement.

Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.

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.

The loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide.

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 trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.

The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Jacob Bronowski

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit survive.

Robert W. Service

This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.

George Bernard Shaw

We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

Thornton Wilder

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.

Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.

Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Dag Hammarskjöld

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.

Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

Life is ever since man was born licking honey from a thorn.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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 the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is better than death I believe if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.

o.henry

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Frances Cornford

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Sebastien Chamfort

Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.

Oliver Goldsmith

Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Aesop

Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Robert Malthus

Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Bertrand Russell

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The character of human life like the character of the human condition like the character of all life is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil the true and false the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social.

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