Life Quotes

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

Samuel Butler

To live is like to love all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

A man begins every stage of his life as a novice.

Nicolas Chamfort

We do not know what life is, and yet we manipulate it as if it were an inorganic salt solution...

Erwin Chargaff

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Jim Butcher

We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

Horace Bushnell

When I started, I decided to devote my life to it and not get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer.

Clifford Lee Burton

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.

Sri Chinmoy

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Emil Cioran

Life inspires more dread than death it is life which is the great unknown.

Emil Cioran

No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Billings Learned Hand