Life Quotes

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Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

August Strindberg

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all: —
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

Jonathan Mayhew

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

You put your camera around your neck in the morning, along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

The life which passes mourns its wasted hour.
And, ah, to think how thin the veil that lies
Between the pain of hell and paradise!
The Grey Eros

George William Russell

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious — friendship and learning.

Jane Ellen Harrison

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.