Life Quotations

1. Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson
2. 
   When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck
3. The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne
4. I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~Elwyn Brooks White
5. Life is simple, it's just not easy. ~Author Unknown
6. 
   A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella
7. Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ~Richard Bach
8. Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. ~Terri Guillemets
9. 
   The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
10. I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~Jack Handey
11. Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ~Christopher Morley,Thunder on the Left
12. Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
    And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
    ~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962
13. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~Kathy Norris
14. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson
15. Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
16. My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
17. 
    I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
18. You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp
19. As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown
20. I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz
21. 
    Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller
22. Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. ~Marion Howard
23. 
    Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~Author Unknown
24. You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson
25. Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye
26. 
    I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth
27. 
    Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson
28. 
    We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown
29. 
    Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown
30. Life is a cement trampoline. ~Howard Nordberg
31. To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him. ~Jeremy Taylor
32. Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper. ~The X-Files
33. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
34. God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown
35. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses
36. I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. ~Jim Carrey
37. My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. ~Cary Grant
38. To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ~Havelock Ellis
39. My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ~Louis Adamic
40. No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November 1838
41. Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go." ~Maya Angelou
42. Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
43. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ~George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, 1906
44. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain
45. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~Albert Camus

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