Quotes About Life

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

This is serious: some of the things that are supposed to last the rest of my life are already wearing out.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

I had a dream my life would be So different from this hell I'm living So different now from what it seemed Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

The only thing constant in life is change.