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Quotes About Life

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
~ Edwin Booth
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.
~ Charles Darwin
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.
~ A. S. Byatt
Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.
~ Wang Wei
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.
~ Henry Beston
Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
~ Edward Young
Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.
~ Ingmar Bergman
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Our female bodies are connected with nature just like a garden.
~ Christiane Northrup
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
~ Tacitus
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
~ Henry Moore
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
~ Billy Corgan
The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion
~ Marquis de Sade
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
~ Albert Camus
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
~ George Santayana
In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.
~ Michael Sandel
Aikido is love. It is the path that brings our heart into oneness with the spirit of the universe to complete our mission in life by instilling in us a love and reverence for all of nature.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.
~ Janine Benyus
However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
~ Mary Oliver
Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
~ Mark Nepo