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Quotes About Life

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
~ Alexandra Fuller
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
~ Huey P. Newton
If you would be a magician, honor the Earth. Honor life. Love. Know that magic is the birthright of every human being, and wisely use it.
~ Scott Cunningham
Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.
~ Scott Cunningham
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind
~ Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
~ Andrew Motion
At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.
~ Judith McNaught
I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.
~ Mike Greenberg
When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?
~ Diane Duane, My Enemy, My Ally
Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
~ Imam Ali (AS)
Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
~ Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.
~ Osamu Dazai
Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
~ John F. Kennedy
We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.
~ Jay Park
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
~ William Ralph Inge
There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
~ Paul Auster
We live by admiration, hope and love.
~ William Wordsworth
As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.
~ Anthony Kiedis
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
~ Ronnie Shakes
Christianity has always been the hope of God through Jesus played out in the lives of real people living in real circumstances.
~ Doug Pagitt
Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.
~ Frederick Hart