Life Quotes

To live is to war with trolls.

~ Henrik Ibsen

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

~ Tehyi Hsieh

You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself.

~ Roy T. Bennett

What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.

~ C. Joybell C.

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

~ William Shakespeare

Never forget:we walk on hell,gazing at flowers.

~ Kobayashi Issa

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

~ Frank Herbert

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

~ Emil M. Cioran

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.

~ Gertrude Stein

No matter how hard life is, don't lose hope

~ Zayn Malik

Sometimes life happens.

~ Katie Mcgarry

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

~ Suzanne Collins

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

~ Jean Rhys

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

~ Bohdi Sanders

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

~ Tennessee Williams

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

~ Margaret Atwood

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.

~ Gayle Forman

Because I don’t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here’s the truth: life is a catastrophe. The basic fact of existence – of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do – is a catastrophe. Forget all this ridiculous ‘Our Town’ nonsense everyone talks: the miracle of a newborn babe, the joy of one simple blossom, Life You Are Too Wonderful To Grasp, &c. For me – and I’ll keep repeating it doggedly till I die, till I fall over on my ungrateful nihilistic face and am too weak to say it: better never born, than born into this cesspool. Sinkhole of hospital beds, coffins, and broken hearts. No release, no appeal, no “do-overs” to employ a favored phrase of Xandra’s, no way forward but age and loss, and no way out but death.

~ Donna Tartt

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

~ Criss Jami

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

~ Haruki Murakami

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

~ Gary L. Francione

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

~ Charles Bukowski

Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?

~ Ali Shaw

Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering

~ Ida Scott Taylor Mckinney

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

~ Audrey Hepburn

I had a dream about you. We installed Dr. Robert Jarvik’s artificial heart in a mannequin and brought it to life, only to later kill it because a creature that’s all fake heart and no brain is what’s commonly called a “politician,” and must be destroyed.


~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

~ Tennessee Williams

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

~ Nicholas Sparks

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

~ Sarah Dessen

I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

~ Libba Bray

It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We are not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree than a keyboard. We are untitled, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and will be, the tadpole before the frog, the worm before the butterfly. We are for a few brief moments, anything and everything we could be. And then...and then -- ah -- we open our eyes and the day is before us and ... we become ourselves.

~ Jerry Spinelli

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

~ Suzanne Collins

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. (first published 1937)]

~ Albert Einstein

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

~ G.k. Chesterton

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

~ Ana Monnar