Quotes About Life

So little time and so little to do.

Prayer will make you one with Jesus, and you can say with Saint Paul, "it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me" (Galatians 2:20).

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

A vida é um sopro.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is non the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.

I was disappointed with Niagara—most people must be disappointed with Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Misfortunes one can endure — they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults — ah! there is the sting of life.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.