The Life Quotes

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

This whole moment is the groin Of a borborygmic giant who even now Is rolling over on us in his sleep.

Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.

One of the lowest points in my life was when I was diagnosed and combated with severe ulcerative colitis which is severe ulcers in you colon that bleed.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

I still find each day too short.

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world, but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.