Life Quotes

“It matters not how long you live but how well.”

“There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.”

“Life is a series of things you do for the first time and the last time, the difference being that you know when it's the first time.”

“From all Life's grapes I press sweet wine.”

“Overheard: "If I never become famous, that's okay, because, to tell the truth, I'm still kind of enjoying my backstory."”

“Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.”

“Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.”

“Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.”

“Don't you find that tears and laughter are your best sign posts on the way through life?”

“Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.”

“Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.”

“The truth is, we are for the most part indifferent to life as a whole, and live within a small section of it so absorbedly that we have no interest in relating this to life in general... We string our days together on a thread of money-making or ambition or amusement or love, or mere avoidance of starvation. But this is the only unity we seek in life, and we make little effort to see if there is any connection between our own experience and the experience of the human race. We are content to be rich men or lovers or nobodies without looking at ourselves as figures in the eternal procession of rich men and lovers and nobodies. That is why there are so few poets and philosophers. The poet and the philosopher are those who are aware that there is a procession in things, and who are always looking for the connection between one thing and another. They may find the wrong meaning in life, but they are not content till they have found some meaning, even if it is only that it means nothing.”