Famous Quotes - Tags - Life

  • ... a unique endeavour
    To bring to bloom the million-petalled flower
    Of being here. More
  • ... asks what it’s too late to ask:
    “Where is my life? Where is my life?
    What have I... More
  • ... automatically, worn out by the gloomy day and by the perspective of a sad tomorrow, I put in... More
  • ... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be... More
  • ... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is... More
  • ... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it... More
  • ... Live!/and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind. More
  • ... our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months... More
  • ... religion (ought to be if it isn’t) a great deal more than mere gratification of the... More
  • ... that’s what living happens to be ... the physiological denial of reverence and good manners... More
  • ... the basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation. More
  • ... the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don’t want to do, and,... More
  • ... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to... More
  • ... the precipitate of sorrow is happiness, the precipitate of struggle is success. Life means... More
  • ... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one... More
  • ... we, like so many others who think more of working than of dying, care only to push on... More
  • ...for [God] makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and... More
  • ...here he is, fully alive, and it is hard to picture him fully dead. Death is thirty-three hours... More
  • ...let the dead bury their own dead. More
  • ...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life. More
  • 3rd Fisherman. I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
    1st Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land:... More
  • A creature not too bright or good
    For human nature’s daily food;
    For transient sorrows,... More
  • A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason. More
  • A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair—a process in time. It is good as a... More
  • A human being is only breath and shadow. More
  • A letter with it
    discloses, in its words and between them,
    a life opening, fearful,... More
  • A life I didn’t choose
    chose me: even
    my tools are the wrong ones
    for what I have... More
  • A lifeless planet. And yet, yet still serving a useful purpose, I hope. Yes, a sun. Warming the... More
  • A lifetime of cleverness can be interrupted by moments of stupidity. More
  • A light heart lives long. More
  • A living man is blind and drinks his drop.
    What matter if the ditches are impure?
    What... More
  • A man’s whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result. More
  • A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. More
  • A moment that gave not only itself, but
    Also the means of keeping it, of not turning to... More
  • A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, comes up like a flower and withers,... More
  • A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work;... More
  • A poor life is better than a good death. More
  • A slight relax of air. All is not dead. More
  • A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking... More
  • A: What is the meaning of life? B: I know, but I won’t tell you. More
  • Ah earth you old extinguisher. More
  • All I want is the moon, Helicon. I know in advance what will kill me. I have not yet exhausted... More
  • All life long, the same questions, the same answers. More
  • All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they... More
  • All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think... More
  • All of our lives is a rebus
    Of little wooden animals painted shy,
    Terrific colors,... More
  • All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes,... More
  • All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down... More
  • All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. More
  • All that people have they will give to save their lives. More
  • All the accumulations of life, that wear us out—clocks,
    bodies, consciousness, shoe,... More
  • all
    Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. More
  • Along a parabola life like a rocket flies,
    Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow. More
  • Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological... More
  • Amen. So be it. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of... More
  • Among the many gifts I showered on Martin, I was careful not to include talent. How easy it would... More
  • An hour of winter day might seem too short
    To make it worth life’s while to wake and sport. More
  • And as she died so must we die ourselves,
    And thence ye may perceive the world’s a... More
  • And by another year,
    Such as God knows, with freer air,
    More fruits and fairer... More
  • And die of nothing but a rage to live. More
  • And he thought to himself...., ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat,... More
  • And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
    Left here without the light I loved so... More
  • And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still... More
  • And if joy were not on the earth,
    There were an end of change and birth,
    And Earth and... More
  • And life, the flicker of men and moths and the wolf on the hill,
    Though furious for... More
  • And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a... More
  • And so you have found out that secret—one of the deep secrets of Life—that all, that is... More
  • And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
    That dying chose the living world for... More
  • And the serial continues:
    Pain, expiation, delight, more pain,
    A frieze that lengthens... More
  • And whether life had been before that sleep
    The Heaven which I imagine, or a... More
  • And, “Better defeat almost,
    If seen clear,
    Than life’s victories of doubt
    That... More
  • Another time I go outside
    Into the world. It rocks on and on.
    It was rocking before I saw... More
  • Art is not living. It is the use of living. More
  • Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and... More
  • As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such... More
  • As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us. More
  • As I ebb’d with the ocean of life,
    As I wended the shores I know,
    As I walk’d where... More
  • As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of... More
  • As long as green hills are there, never fear a shortage of firewood. More
  • At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for... More
  • Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
    To low ambition, and the pride of Kings.
    Let... More
  • Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. More
  • Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time,... More
  • Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It’s a Hebrew proverb. More
  • Being fooled, by foolery thrive;
    There’s place and means for every man alive. More
  • Being young you have not known
    The fool’s triumph, nor yet
    Love lost as soon as... More
  • Belonging to oneself—the whole essence of life lies in that. More
  • Better not to exist than live basely. More
  • Better not touch our friend here while I’m gone. Let him rest in peace—while he can. More
  • Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go. More
  • Between two worlds life hovers like a star,
    ‘Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge. More
  • Birth, and copulation, and death.
    That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
    ... More
  • Blotting the sun
    Stinging the eyes.
    The hot seeds steam underground
    still alive. More
  • Books; china; a life
    Reprehensibly perfect. More
  • Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble. More
  • But all subsists by elemental strife;
    And Passions are the elements of Life. More
  • But by the grace of God I am what I am... More
  • But gathering as we stray, a sense
    Of Life, so lovely and intense,
    It lingers when we... More
  • But it is the same thing we are all seeing,
    Our world. Go after it,
    Go get it boy, says... More
  • But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for... More

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