Life Quotes

"An old man's death is not an event as important as his life."

"The only true currency in life is experience."

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

"The greatest waste is a life not fully lived."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"Every life contains within it the seeds of both tragedy and triumph."

"Life is a sequence of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. It is the terrible delight and novelty of each experience that keeps us living."

"A man's life is determined not by what he achieves, but by what he attempts and why."

"Memory is the artist that paints our past with colors that never were."

"There are two ways of taking life—too seriously, or not seriously enough. Either way leads to misery."

"Beware of monotony; it is the mother of all the deadly sins."

"Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death."

"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow."

"The measure of a person's life is not its duration, but its donation."

"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all."

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

"Life is a thing that grows out of the earth and we are here to understand it and to make the best of it."

"Most people's lives are determined by circumstance rather than choice."

"The stage of life requires actors, and we are all playing roles."

"There is something in us that wants to live, and something that wants to die."

"Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, without question."

"There is a destiny shaped by our choices, not by what happens to us."

"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."

"Life is meant to be lived fully, even if it means experiencing pain."

"Life is a great bundle of little things."

"The small experiences and events that make up life are often the most valuable."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."

"So it goes—such is life."

"Don't you think I know that the first duty in life is to assume a pose?"