Life Quotes

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"In the garden of life, even weeds teach us valuable lessons."

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

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

"Simplicity of living often accompanies greatness of purpose."

"The greatest pain is not in loss, but in the realization that you never truly had it."

"One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance."

"Life's lessons are often written in the margins of suffering and struggle."

"Trust thyself only, then thou wilt know how to live."

"The human being is a self-relating and self-evolving creature."

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"The mind regenerates itself eternally."

"The great object of life is sensation—to feel that we exist."

"In the garden of human experience, both thorns and roses have their place and purpose."

"The Bustle in a house the Morning after Death."

"The bustle in the house in the Morning after Death."

"Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day."

"We play at Paste while we are permitted to play at Boards."

"Sleep, those little slices of death—how I loathe them."

"The life unlived is the greatest tragedy of all."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first."

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"We are all somehow docked of some royal prerogative."

"Grief to the heart like a stone."

"To live is to feel and know thyself alive."

"What do you seek out of life?"

"The greatest of all human problems is the problem of living."

"The world's a ship on its passage out."