Quotes About Life

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

If it weren't for our illusions we'd be free from deceptions, and life free from any interests.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

When we allow our conscience to be our guide, then our purpose in life will be fullfilled.

Life is like a rose garden - Watch for the thorns and keep the pest dust handy.

My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done...inexorably, unalterably done.

Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast.

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.