Life and Existence Quotes

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."

"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself."

"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."

"You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are!"

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."

"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."

"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"

"This is the strangest life I've ever known."

"Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me."

"Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them."

"I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random."

"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."

"Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities."

"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."

"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."

"Money can't buy life."

"Live the life you've dreamed."

"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."

"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."

"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning."

"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

"The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today."

"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."

"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

"Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."