Quotes About Life

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others—his last breath.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.

How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened.

Life is so beautiful. Nobody can control your life

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate when he can't afford it, and when he can. - from Following the Equator

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

There is risk, known and unknown, in all aspects of life. We often consider the loss of life the only serious risk. Unless we are genuinely aware, we calculate the danger arising from our own physical and emotional states and from external conditions based on incomplete information. If we believe we can manage those risks, we accept them. Whether these choices are born of delusion or reality comes out in the end.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.