Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Rimbaud

True life is elsewhere

Cesar Chavez

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Eckhart Tolle

Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.

Anne Tyler

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

Don DeLillo

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

Don DeLillo

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can't lead a true life without suffering

Gao Xingjian

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

George Orwell

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

Leo Tolstoy

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

Mark Strand

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

Oscar Wilde

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

Keri Russell

The thing I loved about this movie [Waitress] when I read the script was that it was exactly the kind of film that I love to watch. It's not just funny, it's serious, just when you need it to be and true to life in a way.

Max Frisch

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Theodor Adorno

There is no true life within a false life.

Tao Lin

Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn’t some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.