| Author |
Quotes |
| Winston Churchill | Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. |
| Woody Allen | Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. |
| Yiddish Proverb | Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end you have nothing. |
| Francis Bacon | The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span, In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb. Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -George Bernard Shaw. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal, Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. |
| Mark Twain | Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. |
| Mark Twain | There has been much tragedy in my life, at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain. |
| Mark Twain | Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. |
| Mark Twain | Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. |
| Oscar Wilde | The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. |
| Oscar Wilde | The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. |
| Oscar Wilde | The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded, each sacrifice is made up, every debt is paid. |
| Samuel Johnson | Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. |
| Samuel Johnson | The joy of life is variety, the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. |
| Thomas Carlyle | The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. |
| Unattributed Author | Let us live then, and be glad While young life's before us After youthful pastime had, After old age had and sad, Earth will slumber over us. |
| Unattributed Author | Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety. |
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