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Quotes about life




The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Aristotle /






Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 






Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle /






You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw /






Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. Scott Fitzgerald /






All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke /






Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw /






When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Marcus Aurelius /






This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Charles Baudelaire /






Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt /






While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /






There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde /






If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Plato /






Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Charlie Chaplin /






I bear a charmed life.
William Shakespeare /






Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci / 






Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
François de La Rochefoucauld /






Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan Watts /






Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard /






Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy /






The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Soren Kierkegaard /






The goal of all life is death.
Sigmund Freud /






I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin /






Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde /






I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway /






Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht /






Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave Flaubert /






The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne /






The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius /






Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven /










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