Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Daniel Dennett

Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners...

Dan Buettner

Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

Dan Chaon

So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn't see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over.

David Foster

We are who people think we are.

David Foster Wallace

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

David Foster Wallace

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

David Cronenberg

Long live the new flesh.

David Bach

Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it.

David Archuleta

I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.

Don Herold

Interruptions are the spice of life.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

Dylan Thomas

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.

Dylan Thomas

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

Dylan Thomas

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

Dylan Thomas

... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.