Quotes
Quotes about Life
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness: So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.]
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.
Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]
Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. â¢George Orwell The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. â¢Henri L. Bergson Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. â¢Eleanor H. Porter The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. â¢Henry Courtney A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. â¢Leonardo Da Vinci A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. â¢Carolyn Wells Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. â¢S. Dubay A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. â¢Winston Churchill The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. â¢Sigmund Freud A feeble body weakens the mind. â¢Jean Jacques Rousseau Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. â¢Buckminster Fuller A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. â¢Anthony Trollope We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. â¢Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. â¢Jean de LaBruyere Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. â¢Napoleon Hill A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. â¢Martin Luther King, Jr. A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. â¢Nicholas Hilliard A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. â¢Eugene Ionesco Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. â¢Maxwell Maltz Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. â¢Source Unknown The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. â¢Michel de Montaigne If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. â¢Lyall Watson Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. â¢Elbert Hubbard The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. â¢Colin Wilson Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
