Life Quotes
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In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away.
Emily Bronte
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She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.
George Eliot
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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad
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Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead
William Butler Yeats
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But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
Hermann Hesse
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Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.
Maya Hawke
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.
Dante Alighieri
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I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.
Sarah Palin
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"When you're immersed in your chosen career, you've chosen it to change your life. Dance has given my life meaning, energy, interests, friendships, learning experiences, and most of all an appreciation for nature - a connection with the processes of nature and it became an insightful part of creativity. It became the lens through which I look at life. I'm part of this dance right now!"
Anna Halprin
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I haven’t had everything from life. I’ve had too much.
Rita Hayworth
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In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
Nicole Krauss
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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.
Nancy K. Miller
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
Jane Austen
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I support religious liberty, but I also think it is very important as a Republican Party that we bring a compassionate tone when talking about women's health care issues, when we talk about pro-life and pro-choice.
Elise Stefanik
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This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
George Michael
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Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.
Ray Bradbury
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The quiet square seemed busy with their ghosts, their stories, and it made me feel peaceful in some arcane way. Life had washed me here on this strange errand. Maybe the best thing to do was to just let it show me what it had in mind.
Barbara O'Neal
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Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.
Seth Godin
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Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.
Mark Ruffalo
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
William S. Burroughs
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh