Life and Existence Quotes

"He not busy being born is busy dying."

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

"Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come."

"The greatest pleasure of life is love."

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now."

"Life is a lively process of becoming."

"Life is a horizontal fall."

"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."

"There is no wealth but life."

"Wrong life cannot be lived rightly."

"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."

"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."

"We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can."

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle."

"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

"Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child."

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space."

"Life is made up of marble and mud."

"Life is wasted on the living."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled."

"To know nothing is the happiest life."

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."

"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it."

"The less routine the more life."

"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"

"This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"Life has a higher end, than to be amused."

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."

"Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end."

"I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding."

"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."

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

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."