Life Is Quotes

One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

The only thing that will really matter at the end of your life is: Did you love completely?

Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.

I'm always surprised reading my old journals. There's this idea that life is hard now, but then I'll reach that moment where it'll change. But there's no summit. It's a constant climb.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."

Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like.

You only live once. Life is a show

And my little sister Chrissy, for teaching me that life is nothing if you're not obsessed.

Life is a rotten lottery.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result (good or bad) to what you have been committed to.

If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.