Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evelyn de Morgan

Art is eternal, but life is short.

Evelyn Underhill

A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

Evan Dando

Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.

Eva Longoria

I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

Eugene Delacroix

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Eugene Ionesco

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

Eugene Ionesco

I just can't get used to life.

Eugene H. Peterson

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

Eugene H. Peterson

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

Esther Hicks

Your life is supposed to feel good to you.

Esther Hicks

The purpose of your life is Joy.

Esther Hicks

Life is a series of delicious moments.

Esther Hicks

The truth is, the Universe will always take care of you.

Ernest Hemingway

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

Ernest Hemingway

To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

Ernest Hemingway

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

Ernest Hemingway

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

Ernest Hemingway

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very normal to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but also very fine.

Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

Ernest Hemingway

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Ernest Hemingway

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Ernest Hemingway

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

Ernest Hemingway

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Ernest Hemingway

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

Ernest Hemingway

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

Ernest Hemingway

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Ernest Hemingway

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

Ernest Hemingway

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ernest Hemingway

In order to write about life first you must live it.