Best 3507 quotes in «life is quotes» category

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

It's hard to remember that life is a miracle. We're just living it and we forget that.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it.

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.

It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

It's really not important what my personal life is.

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

It's so ironic that life is all about love, yet we live most of it either searching, never finding, or messing it up.

It’s strange,” Moominmamma thought. “Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that’s the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.

I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

I've found music over the course of my life is slightly more astoundingly inspiring than great cinema

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU. THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF OFF.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.

I want to be happy and stable. My life is clearly going to slow down.

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that.

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.

I want an ending that’s satisfying. I’m more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don’t like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about.

I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.