Quotes About Life

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

While there's life, there's hope.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

May you live every day of your life.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

I love life because what more is there.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.