Famous 50 Life Quotes of all time

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by the man of mature years?
- Alfred de Vigny

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
 - Jim Morrison

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
- Bernard Malamud

The golden years of my life are slipping by on stealthy feet at nightfall; there is a footprint in the dark, a bell strikes twelve, and the flying year is gone.
- Thomas Wolfe

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.
- Susan Sontag

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
- Bob Marley

Life is fleeting-and therefore endurable.
- Alexander Chase

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.
- Jorge Luis Borges

Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.
- Hans Christian Andersen

All life, he had come to understand, was a boring novel.
- John Gardner

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
- William Hazlitt

Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
- Annie Dillard

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.
- Edwin Way Teale

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
- Seneca

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
- Mae West

How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
- Robert Browning

It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.
- R. F. Delderfield

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books-but it is terrible when one has to live it.
- Jean Anouilh

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
 - Marcus Aurelius

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
- George Herbert

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.
- Socrates

... what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven.
- John Milton

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
- Jimi Hendrix

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
- Artur Rubenstein

I have only three rules of life: never do anything underhand, never get your feet wet, go to bed at ten.
- Bishop William Stubbs

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde

There are but three events which concern men: birth, life, and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.
- Jean de La Bruyere

That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet.
- Emily Dickinson

'Life is very strange,' said Jeremy. 'Compared with what?' said the spider.
- Norman Moss

Every man's life is a plan of God.
- Horace Bushnell

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
- Samuel Johnson

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is meant to be a never-ending education. And when this is fully appreciated, we are no longer survivors but adventurers.
- David McNally

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is fleeting-and therefore endurable.
- Alexander Chase

The time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long.
- William Shakespeare

The creature gets sick, his weight grows heavier, he has moments when he finds himself too weary to go on; yet on he goes, as long as he lives, on until the end ...
- John Gardner

... life falls into place only with God.
- H. G. Wells

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live.
- William Wordsworth

It's hard to play Hamlet when you know the joke.
- Suzanna Cary

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
- Marcus Aurelius

Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
- Lin Yutang

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
- Seneca the Younger