Life Quotes

"I have understood life; I know it is a cruel and bitter struggle."

"In real life people are not always good; real people are complex."

"The greatest tragedy is not death but a life lived for nothing."

"In our time, the curse is not life itself, but the absence of life."

"Life is not a corridor with a nice, neat beginning and end."

"The quality of life depends upon the balance of activity and repose."

"We taste and feast on all that time can give without asking life to change."

"Every pleasure has a pain attached, every payment its price."

"Habit is a great deadener."

"The world is full of people waiting for something to happen."

"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"I have never given adoration to anyone except myself."

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."

"What are these convulsions and these raptures? I am alive, I am alive!"

"I have a yearning for life and a sense of its possibilities."

"To live fully one must embrace both joy and pain."

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."

"The more you live, the more you understand what living truly means."

"The purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

"Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves."

"To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, and to recreate life out of life."

"To live fully is to live without regret."