101 Life Quotes

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
~Oscar Wilde



The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
~ Oscar Wilde


We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
~Lauryn Hill



What we play is life.
~Louis Armstrong


An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
~Herbert Samuel



There must be more to life than having everything.
~Maurice Sendak



Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
~Woody Allen



To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
~Oscar Wilde


Life is just a phase you're going through...you'll get over it.
~Author Unknown


My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
~Ashleigh Brilliant



It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
~Bill Gates



Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
~Bob Monkhouse



I came into this world black, naked and ugly. And no matter how much I accumulate here, it's a short journey. I will go out of this world black, naked and ugly. So I enjoy life.
~Jalacy Hawkins



Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
~Lin Yutang


I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
~Maya Angelou



We're all accidental soldiers in the army of life.
~Ymber Delecto


Life is a long process of getting tired.
~Samuel Butler



He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
~Moroccan Proverb



At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
~Maya Angelou



Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
~Maya Angelou



Life loves the liver of it.
~Maya Angelou

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
~Buddha


Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~Buddha


No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
~Thomas Carlyle



Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
~Lillian Dickson


We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.
~Author Unknown


Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
~Author Unknown


Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go."
~Maya Angelou



To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
~Samuel Butler


Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
~Kathleen Norris


When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
~Mark Twain

Life is the game that must be played.
~Edwin Arlington Robinson


You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
~Albert Camus


There is no wealth but life.
~John Ruskin



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



All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
~Havelock Ellis



Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. ~James Gibbons Huneker



Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
~Ogden Nash


I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.
~A.A. Milne

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
~Thomas Jefferson



It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ~Sherwood Anderson



I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein


The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
~Thomas Jefferson


Life is an incurable Disease. ~Abraham Cowley


Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you.
~Anonymous

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ~Christopher Isherwood


The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.
~Angelina Jolie




The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
~Thomas Jefferson




For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
~Albert Camus






As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.
~Author Unknown


I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz


Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
~Arthur Miller



On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
~Buddha


Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
~Buddha



To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
~Buddha



I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
~Maya Angelou



There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
~Maya Angelou



My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
~Maya Angelou



When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
~Mark Twain



Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
~Douglas Adams


Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
~Truman Capote


Life is wasted on the living.
~Douglas Adams



Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
~Oscar Wilde



He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
~Oscar Wilde



Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
~ Oscar Wilde



There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
~Oscar Wilde


Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
~Oscar Wilde


Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
~Oscar Wilde



Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~Ashley Smith


Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
~Douglas Adams


Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
~George Bernard Shaw


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
~Robert Frost



The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
~Robert Byrne



There is no wealth but life.
~John Ruskin



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

Famous Life Quotes

These are some famous life quotes that have inspired me all my life.:


Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Andersen


Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
~William Wallace

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
~ Leo F. Buscaglia

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
~Oscar Wilde

Life is the sum of all your choices.
~Albert Camus

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~William James

Life is too short when you think of the length of death
~Sean Mangan

Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like
~Steven H

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
~ Oscar Wilde



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
~Anton Chekhov

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
~Jack Handey

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
~Danny Kaye

Death Quotes and Sayings

All Life comes to an End with Death. There are no more certain things in Life than Death. These are are some quotes and sayings about death and dying.


You can't learn to die as though it were a skill. People die in the way they have lived. Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life.
~Michael Roemer

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a happy tune.
~Woody allen

To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
~C.G. Jung


Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
~Mortimer collins

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
~Thomas Browne


Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where.
~John dryden


It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia
~Frank Zappa


The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their lives, which infallibly destroy them
~Joseph Addison


Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage
~Jean Anouilh



Dying is like getting audited by the irs--something that only happens to other people ... Until it happens to you.
~Jerome P. Crabb



Our life dreams the utopia. Our death achieves the ideal.
~Victor Hugo


Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
~Jelaluddin Rumi


Death is nothing else but going home to god, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
~Mother Teresa


All are but parts of one stupendous whole whose body nature is, and god the soul.
~Alexander Pope

I Believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now.
~Norman Vincent Peale



Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.
~Philip Dow


It is better to die on your feet
Than to live on your knees
~Emiliano zapata



Death, feared as the most awful of evils, is really nothing. For so long as we are, death has not come, and when it has come we are not. ~Epicurus



For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
~William Penn



Death, the one appointment we all must keep, and for which no time is set
~ Charlie chan


Either this man is dead
Or my watch has stopped
~Groucho Marx


Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god
~Jean Rostand


The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
~Albert einstein