Quotations By Subject : Life

Quotations By Subject : Life Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Life is just a bowl of pits. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. "Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." (Mark Twain) The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will." (John Atkinson) Life is something that everyone should try at least once. The purpose of life is to fight maturity. "If your purpose in life is to entertain the gods, you might as well put on a good show." (Anonymous) "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning." (John Henry Cardinal Newman) "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation." (John Stuart Mill) "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "In heaven all the interesting people are missing." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. "Get busy living, or get busy dying." (Stephen King) Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. "If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle." (Samuel Johnson) Life is just one damned thing after another. "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." (Florynce Kennedy) Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. I went to the woods, because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." (Henry David Thoreau, Walden) The unexamined life is not worth living. Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.