Quotes about life
life pursuit-of-happiness rights
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity. Jesse Ventura
life stars unique
Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms. H. P. Lovecraft
life-is hideous
Life is a hideous thing. H. P. Lovecraft
life drinking dancing
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. Lovecraft
life religion trying
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. H. P. Lovecraft
life book magazines
The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures. George Herbert
life love-you neighbors-friends
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. George Herbert
life dies
Let all live as they would die. George Herbert
life men anxious
There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life. Jean de la Bruyere
life years numbers
Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months. Jean de la Bruyere
life blessing giving
Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires. Jean de la Bruyere
life birthday age
They that have lived a single day have lived an age. Jean de la Bruyere
life men lasts
Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable. Jean de la Bruyere
life sleep men
Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die. Jean de la Bruyere
life men firsts
Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.] Jean de la Bruyere
life-and-death long may
A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind. Jean de la Bruyere
life hate grief
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Jean de la Bruyere
life pain unhappy
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other. Jean de la Bruyere
life anxiety unhappy
If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension. Jean de la Bruyere
life pain men
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. Jean de la Bruyere
life regret men
Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live. Jean de la Bruyere
life art nice
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. Jean Anouilh
life simple thinking
Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun. Jean Anouilh
life
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it. Jean Anouilh
life mean hands
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. Jean Anouilh
life children garden
Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. Jean Anouilh
life success cost
What you get free costs too much. Jean Anouilh
life being-yourself acceptance
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. Jean Anouilh
life death believe
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. Jean Baudrillard
life player games
One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself. Jean Baudrillard
life-is constant satisfied
I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me. Jayne Mansfield
life book waste
Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly Jayne Ann Krentz
life-is
I'll say life is simpler.