Quotes About Life

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Love, like death, changes everything.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go

Love is the essence of human experience and emotion. It is at the root of all and everything we, as humans, do. Without love, what do we have to live for?

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

We all face storms in life, whether it is a storm like Katrina, a storm in a marriage, or a storm in our finances.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Being asked whether it's better to marry or not, he (Socrates) replied, Whichever you do you will repent it

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

Marriage, if truth be told (of this be sure), An evil is - but one we must endure

This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life