Until death it is all life
— Don Quixote
Quotes About Life
Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
— Diary in Exile, 1935
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
— The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
— The Magic Lantern
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...
— The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ourselves a belief system that is worthy of life.
— Sugar Street
You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.
— The Tale of Genji
If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?
— The Misanthrope
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
— Where is Science Going?
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
May you live every day of your life.
When you have money in hand, only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forget who you are. It's life.
It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.
Everything you can imagine is real.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only when / God lays His headagainst us.
Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean!
Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.