Life Quotes

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!

~ Roman Payne

I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.

~ Tahereh Mafi

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

~ Thomas Jefferson

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

~ Holly Black

Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.

~ Irving Berlin

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

~ Martha Graham

Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

~ Wil Zeus

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]

~ Anne Bradstreet

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think? Will said. It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.

~ Cassandra Clare

Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.

~ C. Joybell C.

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.

~ A.j. Russell

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

~ Haruki Murakami

Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.

~ Roy T. Bennett

No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind.

~ Roy T. Bennett

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

~ David Cook

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

~ Mitch Albom

Life is but a day,A fragile dew-drop on its perilous wayFrom a tree’s summit.

~ John Keats

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

~ Jane Austen

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

~ Ellen Degeneres

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

~ Jane Austen

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

~ Virginia Woolf

How would your life be different if…You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.

~ Steve Maraboli

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

~ E.m. Forster

My life is a reading list.

~ John Irving

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

~ Alan W. Watts

No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest.

~ John O'donohue

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

~ Oscar Wilde

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

~ Edward Gorey

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

~ Helen Keller

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

~ Lois Lowry

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

~ Randy Pausch

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

~ Nicholas Sparks

By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life.

~ Tina Fey

Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.

~ Roy T. Bennett