Quotes
Quotes about Life
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of lifeâthe terror of art.
At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.
"Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
An idle life always produces varied inclinations. [Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. [Lat., Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita vexatur.]
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. [Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.]
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing--only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality--I wish to live with you forever.
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
