Quotes About Life

302 quotes

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

British musician

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

American actress

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Polish-born French physicist and chemist

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

Egyptian writer

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

English playwright and poet

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

— King Lear

American author and humorist

Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!

— The Mysterious Stranger

English modernist writer

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

— Orlando

Russian novelist

Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.

— Crime and Punishment

Author, novelist, writer

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

— Pride and Prejudice

Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter

He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.

— The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

— Maxims and Reflections

16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

— Meditations

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.

— Of Love and Other Demons

Pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

— Love and Responsibility

Russian author

One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is.

— War and Peace