Life Quotes

Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

The thing about coming back from the dead was that your life went on.

~ Brian Mcgreevy

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

~ Marvin Gaye

It’s like being offered lemonade after having something really sweet. The lemonade was wonderful before, but it just tastes sour after.

~ Kellyn Roth

I’m thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.

~ Anthony Doerr

There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.

~ Rawi Hage

Don't stop talking to me, Makenna. I need your words. Your voice.I don't know what to say is all. I want to take away your hurt.His cheek lifted into a smile under her hand. Thank you. But sometimes I think I need it. It reminds me I'm alive. And it makes the good times that much better. Like right now, being here, with you.

~ Laura Kaye

When we are rich and famous and powerful, we do not want to die. On the other hand, if we are miserable and suffering, we want to die and leave it all. But can joy or misery last forever? There is a saying, All celebrations must end sometime. Any wish to live forever or die immediately is often a whim of the moment. How do we know that, although we are happy now, we may not be sad the next day, or sad now but may be happy soon? Given that good and ill, fortune and misfortune come in their own way, we should not cling to life or embrace death. Life and death will come of their own. Why be greedy about life and afraid of death?

~ Liezi

Your actions are catalysts to another’s actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

~ Idries Shah

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.

~ P.n. Elrod

I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flowers that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write.

~ Eduardo Galeano

Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.

~ Eliza Green

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

~ Voltaire

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns

~ Marquis De Sade

Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the bounty this world offers me. I profit from great harvests in life and believe in the importance of seasons.

~ Roman Payne

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you.

~ David Sedaris

If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we`ve lost a lot.

~ Savannah Page

Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn’t always mean that it’s not the right direction for both of them.

~ Mark Lawrence

When you know how, it's a pleasure to burn

~ Saahil Prem

... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us.

~ Marcel Proust

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is, how we tick and how our world ticks, how the whole thing just is.

~ Pema Chödrön

It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like catching religion.

~ Erik Bundy

Why don't you like getting close?' Marianne insisted. 'Is it because you might get hurt?' Owen shook his head. He still couldn't look at her. 'It's because it's never permanent. Everything dies. Everything gets destroyed. Even love. So we just make the best of it-get our pleasure where we can.

~ Andy Lane

The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.

~ Mia P

With you I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It's a way of giving yourself and calling forth the gift of self from another person.

~ André Gorz

The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

~ Walter Bagehot

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

~ Walter Bagehot

Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It is on this principle that our conjugal existence has rested for three years, devoted to making love, reading, eating excellent meals, spending a few days in a nice hotel by the sea, visiting out friends (not very many, all without children), going to concerts and movies, sleeping, cultivating our garden.

~ Benoît Duteurtre

For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself.

~ J.p.v.d. Balsdon

Is life not more important than anything in this world?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is like a precious pearl.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The kingdom mentality should be discovered, cultivated and consciously guide the way of life

~ Sunday Adelaja

Ignorance leads to destruction.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

~ Joseph Campbell

Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky