Quotes About Life

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.