Quotes about life

"Our life is made by the death of others."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on life
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"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on life
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"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."

Dante Alighieri on life
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"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort."

Davy, Sir Humphrey on life   

"It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important."

Dawson, Roger on life   

"Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game."

Debevoise, P. L. on life   

"If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us."

Delacroix, Eugene on life   

"Life is just a journey"

Diana, Princess of Wales on life
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"Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse."

Dickens, Charles on life   

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

Dickens, Charles on life   

"This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in."

Dickens, Charles on life   

"Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement."

Dimnet, Ernest on life   

"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor."

Disraeli, Benjamin on life   

"Let us live while we live."

Doddridge, Philip on life   

"Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little."

Dorgan, Thomas A. on life   

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on life   

"He lives who dies to win a lasting name."

Drummond, Henry on life   

"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit."

Dryden, John on life   

"People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life."

Duncan, Isadora on life
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"What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens."

Dunnington, Lewis L on life   

"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."

Dyer, Wayne on life
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"Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars."

Dyke, Henry Van on life
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"He who is not busy being born is busy dying."

Dylan, Bob on life
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"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."

Edison, Thomas A. on life
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"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth."

Einstein, Albert on life
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"We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself."

Einstein, Albert on life   

"What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"

Eliot, George on life
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"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

Eliot, George on life
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"The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying."

Eliot, T. S. on life
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"Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks."

Eliot, T. S. on life   

"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."

Ellis, Havelock on life   

"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life   

"If we live truly, we shall see truly."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life   

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Life too near paralyses art."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life   

"Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life   

"Live, let live, and help live"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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