Life - Quotes and Proverbs

A collection of proverbs, quotes and sayings about life.

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A beautiful woman is like an axe in one's life.

A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it.

Albert Einstein

A cheerful wife is the spice of life.

(unknown author)

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Mary Barton

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

A living thing must capture enough energy and materials, and fend off its own destruction long enough to construct a good enough replica of itself.

Daniel Dennett

A loveless life is a living death.

A life without love or loved ones is worthless.

A merry heart makes a long life.

Being happy is good for your health.

A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning.

All life is problem solving.

Karl Popper

All the different life forms that share our planet are our relatives.

Paul Nurse
Source: What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd
Source: Breathe (The Dark Side of the moon)

Always look on the bright side of life.

Monty Python
Song title

An animal is the way it is because it needs to be.

(unknown author)

And I run. Cause life is too short.

The Scorpions

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

Mick Jagger

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Jean Paul

Art is long, life is short.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Bernard Shaw

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

John Lubbock

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

John Muir

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

Richard Dawkins

Children make your life important.

Erma Bombeck

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Rabindranath Tagore

Color is the fruit of life.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Charlotte Brontë

Diversity is what makes life interesting.

Khoudia Diop

Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.

Richard Dawkins

Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

Mick Jagger

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Voltaire

Feminism is not just about women; it’s about letting all people lead fuller lives.

Jane Fonda

For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be

Roger Waters

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Stephen Hawking

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

Stephen Hawking

I choose a mortal life.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Arwen
Quote from the movie

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

Eddie Vedder

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Groucho Marx

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

Rabindranath Tagore

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking

I think to myself, what a wonderful world.

Louis Armstrong
Source: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Arwen
Quote from the movie

I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!

Terry Jones

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

Richard Dawkins