Quotes about life

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

— Dwight L. Moody

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

— Christopher Morley

The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.

— Desmond Morris

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

— Lewis Mumford

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

— Lewis Mumford

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

— Kathleen Norris

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

— Martin Oppenheimer

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

— Robert Orben

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

— Plato

All great art is born of the metropolis.

— Ezra Pound

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

— Herbert Prochnow

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

— Italian Proverb

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

— Jonathan Raban

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

— John Ruskin

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

— George Santayana

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

— Chief Seattle

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

— Neil Simon

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

— Oswald Spengler

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

— Henry David Thoreau

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

— Walt Whitman

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

— Walt Whitman

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

— Oscar Wilde

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

— Thomas Wolfe

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

— William Wordsworth

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Chop the slop!

— Torley

He who would travel happily must travel light

— Antoine de saint Exupery

we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".

— Winston Churchill

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

— Truman Capote

In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find "the ultimate questioner" - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.

— Kedar Joshi

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

— Kedar Joshi

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. - Dr. Seuss

— Theodor Seuss Geisel

live as if your were to die tomorrow. learn as if you were to live forever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no UnDo in real-life.

— Marcos Figueira

In Dog We Trust.

— Marcos Figueira

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

— Adam Lindsay Gordon

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

— Gillian Anderson

Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to the music... Look at paintings and at times be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her and love her.

— Koushun Takami

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion

— Sylvia Plath

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

— Roald Dahl

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

— Roald Dahl

I want freedom, the right to self expression, everybodys right to beautiful radiant things. Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world – prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.

— Emma Goldman

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

— Jackie Robinson

The next chapter of my life is always more interesting than the last one.

— Michael Lipsey

Life is like a grindstone -- whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of.

— Source Unknown

Life waits for no-one.

— Source Unknown

life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.

— Source Unknown

All that we see or seem is nothing but a dream within a dream

— Edgar Alan Poe

Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Glory is only temporary, The way you choose to live your life, lives on in eternity

— Jerry Flanagan

If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you’re willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.

— T. Harv Eker

Live one day at a time"; because the future will come your way no matter what anyway!

— Jerry Flanagan

Sometimes, you have to stop thinking about the future, and just live your life today!

— Jerry Flanagan

Life is about figuring out who you are; it is about accepting who you are; and then allowing that in you to blossom.

— Daniella Kessler

Life is a flowing river and you are in it - so watch out for rocks.

— Daniella Kessler

Life is like a virus, if you dont have fate and hope, you will lose your immunity to that virus.

— Laske

Close your eyes and feel the warmth of the sun; this is the love of god, friends and family.

— Jerry Flanagan

Learning to live is not measured by life its measured by time.

— BPBEE

There must be something unique about me that Got gave me the privilege to exist.

— Fausto Gil

LIFE IS A JOURNEY AND ONLY GOD KNOWS THE DISTANCE

— BPBEE

You got to live life on a heavy meal if its not enough add a dessert!

— BPBEE

If life is more important then money why are we killing ourselves to get it?

— BPBEE

live like it's the last day you'll ever see

— Source Unknown

Starting now, I'm taking life to a whole new level!

— Jerry Flanagan

Life sucks... then you die

— Denis Leary

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

— Italian Proverb

How are you going to live your life; seeing the world as made for you or seeing that you were made for the world?

— Daniella Kessler

Music, fashion & currency is the paint to life's portrait, but your originality is what makes it distinct.

— Jvongard

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough

— Marilyn Vos Savant

I draw my life out with my number two pencil first; proof read it, then pen it! Life is what you make it.

— BPBEE

If you hate your life, change your way of living, suicide should not be committed.

— Jvongard

All the stars in the sky cannot worth as much as yours only because it belongs to you.

— Sorin Cerin

If you combine the suffering’s great color palette you will find happiness as well.

— Sorin Cerin

The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world.

— Sorin Cerin

All the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that ever were built, and all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully

— Source Unknown

Life is never been easy, otherwise you will never treasure for what you have.

— Kazeronnie Mak

Life is like a crystal ball of fortune. When it falls into pieces, the people try to grab it. Someone grabs it more. Someone grabs less. Someone grabs none. And how have you grabbed yet ?

— Mak Kazeronnie

Experience the blissfulness of the choiceless life. Let Existence determine what you will do. You never really had a choice anyway, did you?

— Oshana Dave

The real costs of living on Earth are huge, unseen and obligatory. If you don't hand over the real stuff then you are simply doomed to live a life of tender obscurity when you could have been a legend in your own lunchtime.

— Oshana Dave

From this point onwards you only have the rest of your life to look forward to. And it should precisely that: rest. Haven't you always desired to retire from heavy and unnatural labours so that you can actually start enjoying? The rest of your life starts today!

— Oshana Dave

Just as fishes live only in water and birds live in the air, you too should live only in the illuminating effulgence of True knowledge. Perform all actions while remaining firmly established in this truth. Make this effulgence your permanent abode. Then see, how immensely you can enjoy your daily work, life and even death!

— H.H.Asaramji Bapu

Self-realization is possible in the human form of life, but not in other forms.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Health and wealth are twin sisters.

— Tadj Abelkader

I feel infinite.

— Stephen Chbosky

Options, if too less creates desperation, and if too many, discombobulation

— Amarnath Rakshith

Life is not a race, it is a gift. Enjoy it, don't rush through it.

— Daniella Kessler

Be yourself - Everyone else is already taken

— Oscar Wilde

The world is a book and if you do not travel you read only one page.

— St. Augustine

A Little push at the right direction, can make a big difference

— SANDIP KARMAKAR

We do want to see this which is not seen to us..

— SANDIP KARMAKAR

When you need something, means you lacking something and when you need not something, means you have the wrold...

— SANDIP KARMAKAR

love life and life will love you

— Paul Lopes

Life is only a flicker of melted ice.

— Dejan Stojanovic

What we call life is only talk of nature.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.

— Dejan Stojanovic