All Quotes

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
‐‐ Jessica Hagedorn

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
‐‐ Anita Brookner

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
‐‐ Christopher Isherwood

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
‐‐ Anna Quindlen

Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to be performed for some useful end - the suffering to be comforted, the wandering led home, the sinner reclaimed. Oh! How can any fold the hands to rest and say to the spirit, 'Take thine ease, for all is well!'
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
‐‐ Virginia Satir

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.
‐‐ Monica Seles

Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.
‐‐ Henry Giroux

Life is nutty; anything can happen.
‐‐ Paul Shaffer

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
‐‐ Mary Shelley

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
‐‐ Simone de Beauvoir

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
‐‐ Michael Johnson

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
‐‐ Bob Marley

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
‐‐ Urs Fischer

Life is one long jubilee.
‐‐ Ira Gershwin

Life is one long process of getting tired.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Life is one long struggle in the dark.
‐‐ Lucretius

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

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
‐‐ Franz Liszt

Life is our dictionary.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
‐‐ Cesare Pavese

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
‐‐ Djuna Barnes

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
‐‐ Tennessee Williams

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family.
‐‐ Len Goodman

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
‐‐ Fran Drescher

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
‐‐ Harmon Killebrew

Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
‐‐ Tom Peters

Life is really hard for some people.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
‐‐ Confucius

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
‐‐ Karl Rove

Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
‐‐ M. J. Hyland

Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.
‐‐ Kate Mulgrew

Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.
‐‐ James Mercer

Life is scary.
‐‐ Kendall Jenner

Life is settled and I'm enjoying it.
‐‐ Charlie Adam

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
‐‐ Lily Cole

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
‐‐ Ben Harper

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
‐‐ Sarah Louise Delany