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Quotes about Life


Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

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

Malcom Muggeridge

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, Macbeth

The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Arthur Schopenauer

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

Sir Walter Scott

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Fulton J. Sheen

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

James Matthew Barrie

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.

Dan Chopin

Life is an incurable disease.

Abraham Crowley

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

Thomas La Mance

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

Thomas Walker

There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.

Maurice Sendak

Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child.

Julia Child

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James Matthew Barrie

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

Robert Burns

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

Sebastien Chamfort

Real life seems to have no plots.

Ivy Compton-burnett

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Charles Feidelson, Jr.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux

It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Don Herold

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

Thomas Hughes

Cats and monkeys—monkeys and cats—all human life is there.

Henry James

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