Life Quotes

A Collection of carefully selected Life Quotes and Quotations by Famous People.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain. by Emma Lazarus

Life is half spent before we know what it is. by George Herbert

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. by Anais Nin

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. by Anais Nin

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. by Stephen Vincent Benet

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. by Katherine Mansfield

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. by Jane Austen

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. by Charlotte Bronte

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. by Charlotte Bronte

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. by Samuel Johnson

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. by Samuel Johnson

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. by Samuel Johnson

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. by Samuel Johnson

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. by Joseph Brodsky

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. by Joseph Brodsky

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! by Louisa May Alcott

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. by Victor Hugo

Life is a horizontal fall. by Jean Cocteau

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. by Christopher Morley

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. by Christopher Morley

Life is a time-release capsule granting us only glimpses of ourselves at a time. by Yahia Lababidi

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. by Edith Wharton

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. by Edith Wharton

Life is an incurable disease. by Abraham Cowley

Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone, iindness in another's trouble, courage in your own. by Adam Lindsay Gordon

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