Quotes about life

"The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority."

Calhoun, John C. on life   

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive."

Campbell, Joseph on life
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"Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths."

Camus, Albert on life
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"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead."

Camus, Albert on life
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"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

Camus, Albert on life
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"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."

Camus, Albert on life
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"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."

Camus, Albert on life
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"In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it."

Carlyle, Thomas on life   

"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss."

Carlyle, Thomas on life   

"Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s."

Carlyle, Thomas on life   

"One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments."

Carnegie, Dale on life
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"Life is very interesting if you make mistakes."

Carpentier, Georges on life
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"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."

Carson, Johnny on life
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"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life."

Carson, Rachel on life   

"We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon."

Carter, Jimmy on life
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"Outer space is no place for a person of breeding."

Carter, Violet Bonham on life   

"Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on life   

"Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on life   

"She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being."

Cervantes, Miguel De on life   

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on life
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"Life itself is the proper binge."

Child, Julia on life   

"Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy."

Churchill, Jennie Jerome on life
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"While there's life, there's hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on life
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"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."

Clark, Frank A. on life   

"In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities."

Claypool, Les on life   

"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway."

Coallier, Steven on life
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"Life is a horizontal fall."

Cocteau, Jean on life
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"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on life
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"Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess."

Colton, Charles Caleb on life   

"Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear."

Conrad, Joseph on life
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"It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome."

Conrad, Joseph on life
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"Life is too short to stuff a mushroom."

Conran, Shirley on life   

"We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once."

Cook, Robert A. on life   

"Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing."

Cousteau, Jacques on life
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"A life of ease is a difficult pursuit."

Cowper, William on life   

"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."

Crisp, Quentin on life
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"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

Crowfoot on life   

"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."

Crowley, Aleister on life   

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

Curie, Madame Marie on life
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