Life Quotes

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Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

Fernando Pessoa

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Edward Dahlberg

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Edgar Lee Masters

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander Woollcott

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. (2.9).

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles M. Schulz

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

Whittaker Chambers

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Charles Lindbergh

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Walter Benjamin

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

Isabelle Eberhardt

Would you that spangle of Existence spend
About the Secret — Quick about it, Friend!
A Hair perhaps divides the False and True —
And upon what, prithee, may life depend?
L.

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life

Lalu Prasad Yadav

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. "The characters crowd onto the page", writes Mauriac, "there to accomplish all those things which the personal destiny of the author has kept at bay.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

Maurice Maeterlinck

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

Carlos Castaneda

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

William Banting