Quotes About Life

302 quotes

American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

Brazilian footballer

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

Italian scholar and poet

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Swiss tennis player

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

German racing driver

Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.

German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

41st President of the United States

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

President of France from 1995 to 2007

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

French writer, art critic and journalist

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.

King of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Austrian composer of the Classical period

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.

French Canadian singer

My kids give me the balance to live right.

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer

A house is a machine for living in.

Classical Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty

There is another world, other than/ this one we choose to live in.

French stage actress, painter and sculptor

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

President of Turkey since 2014

Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state.

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

— The Picture of Dorian Gray

English author

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

— Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

German philosopher

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles.

— The Birth of Tragedy

American author and humorist

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

— Life on the Mississippi