Quotes About Life

All human failings give us, in life, the means of exercising our philosophy

There are things in life which one cannot well defend, although one may have the greatest wish to do so.

Hem dünyada kim var, hayat?nda bir kez olsun akl?n? kaybetmeyen?

Tous ces défauts humains nous donnent, dans la vie, Des moyens d'exercer notre philosophie

Le temps qui fuit nous y convie Profitons de la vie Autant que nous pouvons.

On mange pour vivre; on ne vit pas pour manger.

Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.

Le plus grand faible des hommes, c'est l'amour qu'ils ont de la vie.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

One must eat to live and not live to eat.

Before the war cut her life so sharply in two, she had cherished her possessions jealously. ... Now that she had discovered the important truth that her flesh was as brittle as theirs and far more precious, the safety of china cupids had become irrelevant.

Being alive requires of us a relationsip with the mysterious, life-long experience of letting go.

Sometimes we are reminded: All of us live steadfastly in that moment, the one between hope and the exercise of God's will.

It can weigh on your mind, if you think very hard about a horse's life." He might have meant anything, but what came into her own head was Alfred Logerwell beating his horse with a pipe, and her dad's horses, and other horses she had known, horses who were gaunt, thirsty, lame, wounded, broken-winded, frightened, discouraged.

Murder is something you read about, listen to on a wireless, see at the pictures, discover in print every Sunday morning when you open your newspaper. But you never come across in your own everyday life. It happens to other people, maybe in other districts, but it doesn't happen in your family, or among your neighbours, or down your street.

I loved books. Loved reading. It not only gave me an escape from my own world, but opened a door into other worlds. It allowed me, at the beginning of my marriage, to suffer with some grace. As long as I had another world to go to, what did I care about how small and strange and terrifying my own life had gotten?

There are worse things than love.

Whatever this is…this impetus you have to help me right now, I know it's a lie. You're not kind, Blake, and I've had more than enough lies in my life. I don't want any more.

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

That man is so old, he's older than his birthday.

The world's perverse, but it could be worse.

Life made its pattern around and beneath and through her.