Quotes about life

"Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on life   

"Life is but a moment, death also is but another."

Schuller, Robert H. on life
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"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."

Schweitzer, Albert on life   

"Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."

Scott, Sir Walter on life   

"Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting."

Seeley, Sir John Robert on life
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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

Seneca on life   

"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"

Seneca on life   

"Life is warfare."

Seneca on life
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"Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing."

Seneca on life   

"People should always have something which they prefer to life."

Seume, Johann G. on life   

"Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing."

Shakespeare, William on life
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"Simply the thing I am shall make me live."

Shakespeare, William on life   

"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale."

Shakespeare, William on life
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"Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage."

Shaw, George Bernard on life   

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

Shaw, George Bernard on life   

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"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

Shaw, George Bernard on life   

"Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded."

Sheen, Fulton John on life   

"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft on life   

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"There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud."

Shields, Carol on life   

"The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on life   

"In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life."

Sizoo, Joseph R. on life   

"Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above."

Skynard, Lynard on life   

"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."

Smiles, Samuel on life   

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"To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think."

Smith, Lillian on life   

"There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on life   

"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

Socrates on life   

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates on life   

"In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent."

Socrates on life
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"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."

Sophocles on life
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"Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die."

Southey, Robert on life
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"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations."

Spencer, Herbert on life   

"The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood."

Stark, Freya on life   

"Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do."

Steinbeck, John on life   

"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!"

Stevenson, Adlai E. on life
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"I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on life   

"We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on life   

"Life is a means of extracting fiction."

Stone, Robert on life   

"Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it."

Stoppard, Tom on life   

"Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others."

Strait, C. Neil on life
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"May you live all the days of your life."

Swift, Jonathan on life