Life Quotes

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Epictetus

• Hope

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Thales

• Self-discovery

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Anatole France

• Truth

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Bill Hicks

• Dreams
• Imagination

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

• Seriousness

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

• Wisdom
• Friendship

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Epicurus

• Freedom

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Giacomo Casanova

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

George Gershwin

The object of art is to give life a shape.

William Shakespeare

• Art

I would rather die standing up, than live life on my knees.

Emiliano Zapata

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Anton Chekhov

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

Garry Kasparov

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Mira Nair

• Truth

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates

• Wisdom

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Freedom

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Michael Ende

• Time

All that counts in life is intention.

Andrea Bocelli

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

Avril Lavigne

• Joy

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Alanis Morissette

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

D. H. Lawrence

• Knowledge
• Travel

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Plato

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

Ted Turner

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Henry Ford

• Learning

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

• Courage

People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love.

Paulo Coelho

• Flowers

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

Soichiro Honda

• Soul