Life and Existence Quotes

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

"Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity."

"There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game."

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass."

"My life is mine to remember."

"Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream."

"If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance."

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."

"You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events."

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

"I just want to be able to do it all just because that's what life is."

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

"Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard."

"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."

"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."

"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."

"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you."

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

"Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up."

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

"Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him."

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future."

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."

"Thug Life to me is dead."

"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."

"Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born."

"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."

"I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times."