Life Quotes

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler

Morning, Human, Lightning

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Jean Anouilh

Ourselves, Accepting, Consists

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman

Change, Live, Perfect

To know nothing is the happiest life.
Desiderius Erasmus

Nothing, Happiest

To be free is to have achieved your life.
Tennessee Williams

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
John Cleese

Change, Tell, Dalai

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole

Whole, Secret, Interested

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper

Variety, Spice, Flavor

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West

Struggle, Soul, Desire

The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child

Life is but thought.
Sara Teasdale

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver

Work, Daily, Long

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
Abraham Cahan

Imagined, Shorter

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Henry Adams

Sad, Wealth, Summer

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Lindbergh

Future, Knowledge, Past

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Jorge Luis Borges

Single, Moment, Once

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

Serious, Idea, Exists

What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov

Great, Death, Sunrise

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
William Lyon Phelps

Fear, Favorite, Century

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
William Ellery Channing

End, Higher, Amused

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick

Person, Lives, Twice

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Karl A. Menninger

Spirit, Mark, Unrest

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