Life Quotes

“My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled.”

“It just seems sometimes that you've lived your whole life preparing for an inspection that never happened.”

“What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask.”

“"This poor old world works hard and gets no richer: thinks hard and gets no wiser: worries much and gets no happier. It casts off old errors to take on new ones: laughs at ancient superstitions and shivers over modern ones. It is at best but a Garden of Folly, whose chattering gardeners move a moment among the flowers, waiting for the sunset." (Confucius — or Tutankhamen — I forget which)”

“This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower, In the spring time, &c. And therefore take the present time, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, For love is crowned with the prime, In the spring time, &c.”

“My Stature, Feather Youth Could not Withstand The force of Death armed with God's Command. All flesh is Grass, the Lovelyst Flesh and Flowers Which though it flourish this may fade next houre.”

“Youth is a budd Life is a flower Springs in a moment Dyes in an hour Time is as sand Flesh is as glass Sand quick is run Life soon doth pass”

“Joy's a flower, That is born a god, and dies In an hour. Take me, for the Summer closes, And your life is but a rose's.”

“Here, he could exist; "but mere existence is not enough," he sighed; "to live, one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower!"”

“Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I'm entitled to?”

“When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.”

“There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.”