Life Quotes

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

~ Trey Anastasio

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

~ Joan Cusack

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

~ Eugene Kennedy

I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.

~ Lisaraye Mccoy-Misick

I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

~ James Whistler

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

~ Ernst Mayr

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

~ Robert Blair

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

~ Greg Bear

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

~ Brooks Adams

Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.

~ Jeff Cohen

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

~ Steven Tyler

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

~ Conor Oberst

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

~ Stephen King

Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.

~ Monica Bellucci

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

~ Elizabeth Blackwell

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

~ Andre Rieu

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

~ Evel Knievel

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

~ Umberto Eco

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

~ John Eldredge

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

~ Sanjay Dutt

If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.

~ Caitlin Rose

To be honest, I'm a little upset these days. My family has been exposed to the media. Some people break into our house. My ex-girlfriend's photos are circulating online. To say that these are things I need to endure for the sake of celebrity... that's sad. I want to respectfully request that my private life remain private.

~ Song Joong-Ki

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

~ St. Vincent

I'm sad, upset, and disheartened with the trolling that happens on social media... At the end of the day, this whole homophobia is so disheartening and upsetting. And then they say, 'Why don't you speak about your sexuality? You could be iconic in this country.' But I don't want to be iconic anywhere. I want to live my life.

~ Karan Johar

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

~ Ted Turner

I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

~ Azzedine Alaia

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

~ Edie Falco

Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.

~ James Mercer

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.

~ Margot Kidder

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

~ Václav Havel

Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

~ Cilla Black

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

~ Robert Casey

There is still so much drama in my life, but I'm not a sad person anymore.

~ Nikki Reed

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

~ Jack Nicholson

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.

~ Alice Morse Earle

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

~ Alice Munro

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

~ Robert Redford