Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Aristophanes

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

Aristophanes

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Antonio Gramsci

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Antonio Porchia

Yes I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

Antonio Porchia

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

Antonio Porchia

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

Anya Seton

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

Anya Seton

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

Antonya Nelson

You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.

Bruce Lee

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

Bruce Lee

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.

Bruce Lee

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Bruce Lee

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

Bruce Lee

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

Bruce Lee

There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

Bruce Lee

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

Bruce Lee

Real living is living for others.

Bruce Lee

Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

Bruce Lee

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

Brooks Atkinson

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

Edward Young

The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

Edward Young

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Edward Young

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

Edward Young

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Edward Young

As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

Edward Young

Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.

Edward Young

Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.