Life Quotes
Quotes about Life
2336 quotes
- “Something will happen to Earth eventually, it's just a question of time. Eventually the sun will expand and destroy all ...” — Elon Musk
- “It is... Jung's finding that men who try to live without contact with the unconscious and its symbolic and mythological ...” — Carl Jung
- “Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. Virginia Wool...” — Virginia Woolf
- “Life in its entirety must be purified by the flame of achievement. The great Buddha, who preordained Maitreya, prescribe...” — Gautama Buddha
- “It would have amused you to see our progress. We went up by Sion Hill, and returned across the fields. In climbing a hil...” — Jane Austen
- “Wording in Ideas and Opinions: The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral concep...” — Albert Einstein
- “Variant transcription from "Death of a Genius" in Life Magazine: "Then do not stop to think about the reasons for what y...” — Albert Einstein
- “Another possible source for the quote was proposed by Norbert Guterman, editor of "A Book of French Quotations," who not...” — Voltaire
- “When the majority of the country could not live with the extremes of brutality they witnessed, political remedies were e...” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes f...” — Leo Tolstoy
- “The longing for guidance, for love and succor, provides the stimulus for the growth of a social or moral conception of G...” — Albert Einstein
- “Plath is an indefatigable graphomaniac who could write as fervently of colds, fevers, nausea, cramps and nosepicking as ...” — Sylvia Plath
- “We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the...” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Critici...” — Ernest Hemingway
- “The first eighteen years of life profoundly impact your entire life. In the book What Happened to You?: Conversations on...” — Oprah Winfrey
- “Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere. I do not know what to tell y...” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Attributed in Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark (1971), p. 737. The only source given in the end notes is ...” — Albert Einstein
- “What the inventive genius of mankind has bestowed upon us in the last hundred years could have made human life care free...” — Albert Einstein
- “O my country! it is at this moment, when I see you bleeding, inanimate, your head hanging, your eyes closed, your mouth ...” — Victor Hugo
- “Smith distinguishes with great sophistication the different kinds of reasons people have in taking an interest in the li...” — Adam Smith
- “The freest importation of salt provisions, in the same manner, could have as little effect upon the interest of the graz...” — Adam Smith
- “I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any o...” — Jane Austen
- “Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, wi...” — Albert Einstein
- “See, my parents didn't go to college, but they were determined to give us that opportunity. My dad was a pump operator a...” — Michelle Obama
- “To be taken without consent from my home and friends; to lose my liberty; to undergo all those assaults on my personalit...” — C. S. Lewis
- “All his life Alexey Alexandrovitch had lived and worked in official spheres, having to do with the reflection of life. A...” — Leo Tolstoy
- “Narrated Umm Khalid: I (the daughter of Khalid ibn Said) went to Allah's Messenger with my father and I was wearing a ye...” — Muhammad
- “The choice is between two ways of life: between individual liberty and State domination; between concentrations of owner...” — Winston Churchill
- “Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may ma...” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “In 1861, Abraham Lincoln told Congress that the 'leading object' of American government was 'to elevate the condition of...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “The Dharma for benefiting oneself and others is complete. If I were to live longer it would be of no further benefit. Al...” — Gautama Buddha
- “Jefferson expressed the American idea: political and social pluralism; government of limited, delegated and enumerated p...” — Thomas Jefferson
- “I always felt that Uncle Remus should be played by a living person, as should also the young boy to whom Harris' old Neg...” — Walt Disney
- “The vicious lover is the follower of earthly Love who desires the body rather than the soul; his heart is set on what is...” — Plato
- “They despised everything but virtue, caring little for their present state of life, and thinking lightly of the possessi...” — Plato
- “Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid was...” — Anton Chekhov
- “There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts...the hu...” — Carl Jung
- “There can be no doubt about the virulence of the hostility which has been shown by the critics of Marxism. Again and aga...” — Karl Marx
- “It is in order that each of you may have through this free government which we have enjoyed, an open field and a fair ch...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “I thought: "I am perishing of cold and hunger, and here is a man thinking only of how to clothe himself and his wife, an...” — Leo Tolstoy
- “Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He ...” — Jesus
- “Variants (Many of MLKs' speeches were delivered many times with slight variants): An Individual has not started living f...” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “I know that most men - not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding...” — Leo Tolstoy
- “For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember the...” — Marcus Aurelius
- “I shall within a few days divest myself of the anxieties and the labors with which I have been oppressed, and retire wit...” — Thomas Jefferson
- “A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits tho...” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “The two that I feel I have most responded to, and probably because they have lived through, and been inspired by, times ...” — Anton Chekhov
- “Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can thi...” — Anton Chekhov
- “The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of ou...” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Interestingly, Cicero saw the root of benevolence and charity in conscience, and in fact was the first scholar in histor...” — Cicero