Life Quotes
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Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.
Ninette de Valois
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People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
Catherine Deneuve
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At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
Mike Tyson
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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The only things I had to look forward to in life was a job and a career and a family and just going through the whole cycle. It just seemed like what everybody else was doing. And I looked at people around me. I looked at the people that taught the schools and around the government, and I looked at the type of work that my father did, and none of it really interested me that much. And when I first took psychedelics, I felt like I was admitted into a world of compassion and beauty and creativity. It was like nothing I had experienced in my regular life. And almost instantly that became the goal of where I wanted to be...
D. M. Turner
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Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
E. O. Wilson
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
Adyashanti
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To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical phenomena, to be able to uncover what is real and definitive, was my life's great dream.
Ernest Solvay
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I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
Annette Bening
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I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.
Brad Garrett
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I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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The life of men is painful.
Euripides
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I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.
Kenny Chesney
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
Madame de Stael
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You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.
Melissa Bank
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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
Eudora Welty
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The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
Elia Kazan
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An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.
Carolee Schneemann
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You should not separate your life from what you do.
Jeanne Moreau
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In theory, it matters little to me whether I live as whether I die; in practice, I am lacerated by every anxiety which opens an abyss between life and death.
Emil Cioran
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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Pablo Picasso
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The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.
M. F. K. Fisher