Quotations about

Life

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

—Henry J. Tillman

Life is just one damned thing after another.

—Isaac Asimov

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

—J. K. Rowling

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

—J. M. Barrie

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

—Unknown

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

—Unknown

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

—Unknown

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

—Unknown

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

—Unknown

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

—Unknown

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

—Unknown

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

—Oprah Winfrey

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath.

—Charlotte Joko Beck

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

—Norman Mailer