Quotes About Life

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
----Jawaharal Nehru

Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.
----Benjamin Franklin

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
----Helen Keller


Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
----Alexis

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.
----Palladas

The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
----Seneca

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
----Thomas Fuller

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
----Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.
----Kal Menninger

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
----Hypocrites

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

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
----La Bruyere

Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
----Harry Emerson Fosdick

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
----Earl of Beaconsfield

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
----Elbert Hubbard

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
----Herman Melville

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
----Plutarch

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
----George William Curtis

The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends,
and the other begins?
----Edgar Alan Poe

One way to get the most out of life is
to look upon it as an adventure.
----William Feather

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
----Rainer Maria Rilke

To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
----Samuel Butler

One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.
----Thomas Carlyle

Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.
----Sir Thomas Brown

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
----Jules Renard