Quotes about life

"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."

Tagore, Rabindranath on life
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"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."

Temple, Sir William on life   

"Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed."

Thibodeau, Robert on life   

"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer."

Thomas, Dylan on life   

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Thoreau, Henry David on life
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"If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for."

Thoreau, Henry David on life   

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion."

Thoreau, Henry David on life
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"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest."

Thoreau, Henry David on life
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"He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy."

Tieck, Johann Ludwig on life   

"Only those live who do good."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on life   

"Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs."

Tomlin, Lily on life   

"Life is not a dress rehearsal."

Tremain, Rose on life   

"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head."

Twain, Mark on life
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"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on life
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"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."

Unknown, Source on life   

"It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there"

Unknown, Source on life   

"First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying"

Unknown, Source on life
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"After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it."

Unknown, Source on life   

"A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too."

Unknown, Source on life   

"A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end"

Unknown, Source on life   

"Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout"

Unknown, Source on life   

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

Unknown, Source on life
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"Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!"

Unknown, Source on life   

"Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable."

Unknown, Source on life   

"To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home."

Unknown, Source on life   

"To a wise man every day is a new life."

Unknown, Source on life   

"The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end."

Unknown, Source on life
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"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying."

Unknown, Source on life   

"The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way"

Unknown, Source on life   

"One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit."

Unknown, Source on life   

"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching."

Unknown, Source on life   

"No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living."

Unknown, Source on life   

"Making a life comes before making a living."

Unknown, Source on life