Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 11
Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.
Gioacchino Rossini
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
Philip Butler
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin–real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D. Souza
To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde
Life must be lived as play.
Plato
Life is not living, but living in health.
Martial
Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life’s pleasures is like a blacksmith’s bellows. He breathes, but does not live.
Proverb
The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question.
Terri Guillemets
The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
Ken Hudgins
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.
Groucho Marx
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.
Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
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)
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon
It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Browne
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
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.
E. B. White
Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.
Luigi Pirandello
Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.
Eliot Wiggington
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
Mignon McLaughlin
Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway.
Steven Coallier
Living is a sickness from which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a pallative. The remedy is death.
Nicolas Chamfort
I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
Proverb
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways:
1 by doing a deed;
2 by experiencing a value;
3 by suffering.
Victor Frankl
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism — this is the art of living.
Jean De La Fontaine
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