Quotes About Life

302 quotes

American singer-songwriter

Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free.

American actress

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

American singer and actor

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

Polish-born French physicist and chemist

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Greek philosopher and mathematician

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

English computer scientist

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

Italian scholar and poet

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic

To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision

Swedish director and screenwriter

Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!

— The Seventh Seal

Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

Swiss tennis player

I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.

English author

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

American author and humorist

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

— Pudd'nhead Wilson

English modernist writer

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

— To the Lighthouse

Author, novelist, writer

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

— Persuasion

English novelist and social critic

Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!

— Our Mutual Friend

French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician

I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."*Fantine

— Les Misérables