Quotes About Life

I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of the human past is written and that book cannot be changed, so is the future which will be a part of the history and his book neither can be changed.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

She [Sadie Thompson] was a girl who knew how to be gay even when she was sad. And that's important--you know?

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life.

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Should I understand that love is the reverse of out life, that it is death?

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Man knows the Illusion of his Life and not the Absolute Truth, the man creates the birth of the universes he has once known, but of the Illusory universes and not of those who form or are a part of the Print of our God who is the Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one.

Love is the wild card of existence.

Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish, of absurd and uncertainty, of lack of power and suffering. He will hail the sun and the stars and everything that surrounds him knowing they are all vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities that will give man a meaning! This vanity of vanities will tell the man that he truly dreams his own Illusion of Life, that he finally found the meaning!

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.