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Quotes about Life


Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Henry Miller

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

Eugene O'neill

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 like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get. -Robbert Oustin.

Robbert Oustin

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Charles Schulz

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.

Miguel De Cervantes

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Khalil Gibran

The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth dyeing for. Because in the end, before that final moment, is it not the moments of your life that flash before you?

Paul Acquasanta

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.

Fr. Alfred D'souza

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

Lillian Dickson

My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi.

Mahatma Gandhi

Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.

Thich Nhat Anon.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations.

Oscar Wilde

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

Robert Frost

Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Mel Brooks

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. -Aaron Antonovsky.

Aaron Antonovsky

Once you understand life----you understand life's potential.

Sean Baltz

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Ernest Hemingway

Believe in life's message; follow your hearts desired fate.

Paul Acquasanta

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