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Quotes about Life


Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Eugene Benge

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Bob Dylan

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.

Native American Proverb

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

Elizabeth Barret Browning

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

T.s. Eliot

Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.

Khalil Gibran

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Woody Allen

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Lord Alfred Buddha

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.

Woody Allen

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death.

Julius Unknown

It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.

Julius Unknown

Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.

Joanna Baillie

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Southey

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert South

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Virgil Thomson

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Southey

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

Anthony Robbins

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Gene Fowler

Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.

Lily Collins

Everything starts with yourself—with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

Tony Dorsett

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dudley Field Malone

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Omar Nelson Bradley

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