My Life Quotes
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
Jules Verne
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My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
Bernard Stiegler
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I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.
Steven Soderbergh
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
Emily Bronte
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Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.
Tim Ferriss
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As usual it seemed to her that she could enter and leave my life without any worries, as if we were still a single thing and there was no need to ask how are you, how are things, am I disturbing you.
Elena Ferrante
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My life is one demd horrid grind.
Charles Dickens
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I had to find the courage to turn my life around.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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My river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.
Elena Ferrante
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If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
Elisabeth Elliot
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I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
Mike Tyson
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What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
Alexandre Dumas
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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Sophocles
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If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.
Brady Udall
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I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.
Elwood G. Norris
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My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
Victor Hugo
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.
Billy Joel
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And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.
Charles Dickens
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I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel
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... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers