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Quotes About Life

Last updated: September 23, 2024

2,317 Quotes About Life organized by Most Popular

“Truth is still absolute. Believe that. Even when that truth is hard and cold, and more painful than you've ever imagined. And even when truth is more cruel than any lie.”
— Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill
Tagged: Truth, Life
“Do you ever wonder if we make moments in our lives, or if the moments in our lives make us?”
— Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill
Tagged: Moments, Life
“There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. And, of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back.”
— Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill
Tagged: Moments, Life, Crossroads, Decisions
“As we strain to grasp the things we desire, the things we think will make our life better, money, popularity, fame, we ignore the things that truly matter. The simple things like friendship, family, love, the things we probably already had.”
— Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill
Tagged: Appreciation, Life, Popularity, Simple Things
“I believe this world is a damaged place, and if you can find a sliver of happiness, stay in it as long as you can.”
— Anonymous, Orange Is The New Black: "Season 4, Episode 13"
Tagged: OITNB, Life, Happiness, Sad, Growing Pains
“I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.”
— Meg Cabot, Abandon Book 2: Underworld
Tagged: Luck, Parents, Life, Responsibility
“We all have souls of different ages.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned [Annotated]
Tagged: Life, Pain of Living
“You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.”
— David Whyte, Sweet Darkness
Tagged: World, Belonging, free world, Freedom, freedom in the world, Free, Learning, Thinking, solitary, Solitude, Life, Darkness, sweet confinement, Alone, Poetry, poem
“Comedy is about observing the hidden truths in life that everyone knows but nobody has ever quite articulated. And standup is about how to articulate that truth in such a way that people feel momentarily unsafe and confused (the setup), and relieved (the punchline).”
— James Altucher, Jim Norton — Dropout And Laugh(A Comedian’s Journey)
Tagged: comedy, Standup, Truth, Life
“As long as your words survive, then you lived and you mattered and you changed the world and I cannot remember your name.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury
Tagged: Words, Life, lived, World, Remembered, mattered, Change the World, changed the world
“Maybe the only thing I know in life: the more I help people, the more I have to give. It’s like a barrel of infinite water.”
— James Altucher, The Most Important Factor In Being Happy
Tagged: Helping People, Helping Others, Giving, Life
“Everything sucks. I know it. You know it. Let that free you.”
— Ryan Holiday, The Key To Happiness Is Realizing That Everything Sucks
Tagged: Life, Life Sucks, H4D-27
“Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.”
— Emil Nolde, Unknown
Tagged: Art, Life
“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”
— Andy Warhol, Warhol: The Biography
Tagged: Life, Learning, Living, purpose, purpose in life, Awareness
“I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you’re standing next to the right person.”
— Jennifer Nevin, All the Bright Places
Tagged: Life, World, Goodness, Hope, Love, Right Person
“I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
— Charles Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock,(1840) Vol. 1
Tagged: Lips, heart, Love, Loved Ones, secrecy, not keeping secrets, conceding, Honesty, Life, Inspirational
“I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.”
— Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
Tagged: Things, meaningful, Doubts, fears, Art, Life, self
“People say that where there’s life, there’s hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse.
There is hope, therefore I live.”
— Stephen King, Revival
Tagged: Hope, Life, Living
“Death has been good enough for everyone who has ever lived... so far.”
— Hank Green, How Much is a Human Life Worth?
Tagged: Life, Death
“To serve others and not only to secure their welfare, but also to avoid harming them, is the standard of a meaningful life.”
— Dalai Lama
Tagged: Serving People, Life, Peaceful World
“"Free" is not free from feelings, but free to feel each one and let it move on, unafraid of the movement of life.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Life, Movement Of Life
“Time ain’t nothing if it ain’t fast taking everything that you ever had. And giving nothing in return but a cold bed in a quiet earth”
— Chris Cornell, Before We Disappear
Tagged: Life, The Point of Life, We All Die, Death
“Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.”
— Alexa Chung, TOP 25 QUOTES BY ALEXA CHUNG(of 71) | A-Z Quotes
Tagged: Life, Reasons, H4D-14
“Life isn’t fair. You may think that we are all created equals and have equal opportunities but that isn’t true. Some people can have an unfair advantage, and there won’t be anything you can do about it except smile and move on.”
— Aradhana Pandey, 7 Harsh Realities You Have To Accept In Order To Actually Be Happy In Life
Tagged: 20-something, Life, unfair
“We have given so much power to others over our own lives that we have forgotten the power that lies with each one of us.”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To Women Like Me
Tagged: Love, Life, Power
“I'm going to take the life I was supposed to have instead of waiting for it to come and find me.”
— Jack,
Tagged: Life, Success, Action
“A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.”
— Paul Gibbons, Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive
Tagged: Self-improvement, Life, Potential
“I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.”
— Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift
Tagged: Hope, Meaning, Life
“We are blessed to be tiny beings in this universe. We are blessed to feel momentous because we are larger than these grains of sand.”
— Anne Rice, Prince Lestat
Tagged: Blessed, Life, Universe
“The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.”
— Mary Balogh, The Devil's Web
Tagged: Pain, Life, Time
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
— Nick Hughes, Just a recent blip in the cosmos, are humans insignificant? – Nick Hughes | Aeon Essays
Tagged: Life, Cosmos, Significance, Thoughts On Life, Human Life
“Sometimes you need to slow down, stay still and allow life to happen. Endure the storm and have faith that this too shall pass.”
— Gia Sison
Tagged: Life, Motivate Yourself
“The more I sit through life and just live in the moment, the more I appreciate it as it is. Let go of how things were supposed to show up.”
— Gia Sison
Tagged: Life, Letting Go, Appreciate Life, live in the moment
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.”
— Neil Gaiman, My New Year Wish
Tagged: Mistakes, Growth, New things, Learning, Life, New Year, resolution, Improvement
“That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognize it from random life?”
— David Baddiel, Whatever Love Means
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Life
“If she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her.”
— Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After
Tagged: Macros, Red, laugh, Think, Desire, Love, Life, Dating, Relationships, Marriage, Forever
“What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?”
— Elvis Presley, Once Is Enough
Tagged: Macros, subtitle, Green, Life, Live Boldly, Yolo, live
“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it.”
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Tagged: Stories, Life, Story
“I am trying to remember that these people who I don’t agree with – they are broken too.”
— Kim Quindlen, I Am Just Trying To Be A Person
Tagged: humanity, Person, Growing Up, Life, life advice, Quote of the Moment
“I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.”
— Nicholas Hoult, Teen player
Tagged: Optimism, Life
“A good plan allows for plenty of spontaneity and room for change - but without a plan at all, it's difficult to work toward something significant over time.”
— Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Tagged: Happiness, Traveling, Love, Life
“Your comfort zone may be more like a cage you can’t escape from than a safe place you can retreat to.”
— Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Tagged: Happiness, Traveling, Love, Life
“Things suffer. I get less sleep than I should...I don’t give my family enough time. It’s a constant tug-of-war between competing interests in my life. I deal with it the best I can and try to roll with the tension as best I can.”
— Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Tagged: Happiness, Traveling, Love, Life
“If I could do anything, would it be what I’m doing today.”
— Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Tagged: Happiness, Traveling, Love, Life
“Do work your butt off for a couple years if that’s how long it’ll take for you to get there. Easy projects aren’t quests, they’re holidays from real life. Any real trial will challenge you to the core. Acknowledge that and fight like hell to keep working through it!”
— Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Tagged: Happiness, Traveling, Love, Life
“When you stop telling yourself that you’re someone who just doesn’t get to be happy, it stops being the truth.”
— Heidi Priebe, I’m 25 Years Old And I Think I’m Finally Learning How To Be Happy
Tagged: Happiness, Finding Happiness, Quote of the Moment, Life, life advice, Growing Up, Honesty, How To Be Happy
“You should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in every action.”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: Life, Leaving A Mark, impact
“I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: God, Simple Things, Life
“But then, what makes life interesting are the challenges we face, and so I end up accepting the invitation. ”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: Challenges, Faith in God, Life
“I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope.”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: Love, Life, Hope