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Quotes about Life


Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

William Butler Yeats

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

All of us have our troubles. But no matter how unhappy we are, life has to carry on.

Lame Ger

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.

Kahlil Gibran

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert Humphrey.

Hubert Humphrey

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

George Bernard Shaw

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. -Kurt Vonnegut.

Kurt Vonnegut

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. -Groucho Marx.

Groucho Marx

Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.

Groucho Anon.

Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back.

Groucho Anon.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

John Barrymore

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Thomas Carlyle

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Winston Churchill

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T.s. Eliot

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

Samuel Johnson

A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

John Keats

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg

All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.

Samuel Butler

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

Elizabeth Kubler-ross

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Henry Adams

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

Marcus Aurelius Antonius

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