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Quotes About Life

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
~ Heinrich Heine
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
~ George Eliot
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
~ Jack Lemmon
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
~ E. M. Forster
We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.
~ Paul Washer
When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.
~ Etta James
I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.
~ Romain Gary
We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
~ Lillian Hellman
Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
~ Buddy Holly
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
~ Will Rogers
I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.
~ Herb Kelleher
The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.
~ Sarada Devi
The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.
~ Kerry Packer
But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.
~ L. Frank Baum
A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.
~ Thomas Lynch
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
~ Sarah Bernhardt
Every day above earth is a good day.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.
~ John Ortberg
Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.
~ Nicholas of Cusa
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
~ Johnny Cash