Quotes About Life

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Thus idly busy rolls their world away

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

My friends, my children, and fellow sufferers, when I reflect on the distribution of good and evil here below, I find that much has been given man to enjoy, yet still more to suffer. Though we should examine the whole world, we shall not find one man so happy as to have nothing left to wish for; but we daily see thousands who by suicide shew us they have nothing left to hope. In this life then it appears that we cannot be entirely blest; but yet we may be completely miserable!

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

The country blooms—a garden, and a grave.

Only the young die good.

Indeed, half the battle of living a playful life lies in committing yourself to authentic communication. The fun of engagement with others soon follows.

On our planet, there are people. One people is a person. You are a person. You have a body. Look after it, as most bits don't grow back.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

With you I could live, without you I was already dead.

A tree grows into the air because it grows out of the air. The bulk of the tree is not made from the soil beneath- indeed, the soil is in large part made by the tree. Both soil and tree are made from the sun and wind and rain. The land is just a place to stand.

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

Either you're born crazy or you're born boring.

Destiny is never clear when it arrives. Sometimes we just refuse to do what we no longer feel good about doing. These moments are mysteries in our lives, but we know everything will change.

I was heartbroken, but used to it; the patterns of struggle and failure in life tend to repeat themselves.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.