On Life Quotes

Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.

Horses and life, it's all the same to me.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

Life is about collecting good people around you. You can’t have enough good people.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

Hate poisons your life.

No matter what you are experiencing in life right now, trust that all is unfolding in your best interests.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.

Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

My life has always been a series of challenges and I'm psychologically-prepared but this is the biggest challenge of my life.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?

The soul is here for its own joy.

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.

I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society

I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

Old age is life's parody.

Be equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.