Quotes for: life

Quotes about life

Custom, then, is the great guide to human life.
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding /

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King Jr. /

While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
Confucius - Analects /

Each life makes its destiny.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Journal intime /

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to comes.
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being /

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
Alan Watts /

Life is short, but boredom makes it longer.
Jules Renard /

Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.
Honore de Balzac - Scenes from Parisian life /

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
M. C. Escher /

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist /

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing less than his life.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism /

Never do anything which you do not understand. But learn all you ought to know, and by that means you will lead a very pleasant life.
Pythagoras /

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf /

Poetry, it's one of the most pretty nicknames we give to life.
Jacques Prévert /

Psychology, as I understand it, is not only a piece of knowledge but a certain wisdom of life.
Carl Gustav Jung /

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
Wilhelm Reich /

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo - Le roi s'amuse /

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde /

life

Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
Eugene Raskin - Those Were the Days - Single by Mary Hopkin /

To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn't fixed.
Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety /

The finest things in life are life’s illusions.
Honore de Balzac /

There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
George Bernard Shaw /

Every great philosophy... as a whole says always only: this is the image of all life, and from this learn the meaning of your life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James /

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
Benjamin Disraeli /

Blessed is he who has overcome all passions and then proceeds energetically to perform his duties under all circumstances careless of success! Let the motive lie in the deed, not in the outcome.
Ludwig van Beethoven /

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