Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

D. H. Lawrence

For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.

D. H. Lawrence

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

D. H. Lawrence

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

D. H. Lawrence

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

D. H. Lawrence

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. Lawrence

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

D. H. Lawrence

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

Cullen Hightower

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

Cullen Hightower

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

Conrad Hilton

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Aiken

Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

Conor Oberst

Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

Clara Zetkin

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.

Clara Schumann

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

Clarence Darrow

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

Clarence Darrow

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Clarence Darrow

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live.

Clarence Darrow

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

Clarence Darrow

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

Clarence Darrow

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

Clarence Darrow

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Daniel Defoe

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

Daniel Dennett

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

What if; The meaning of life is to be -- be yourself, be a friend, be love, be light, be laughter, be joy, be abundantly you- just a thought.

Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.

Li Na

I would like to say now I was very enjoy the life right now.

Alexander Payne

Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

Alexander MacLaren

A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on.

Alexander MacLaren

Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.

Alexander McCall Smith

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

Alexander Pope

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

Alexander Pope

Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.