Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
Walter BenjaminMan, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Lord ByronI don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life.
Christiaan BarnardThe lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.
William Of NormandyBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
SocratesDeath is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyDo not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.
Samuel JohnsonA serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Henry Ward Beecher Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
BuddhaI had a horrible, horrible breakdown. It was just huge, like the worst period of my life, and it lasted for a couple of months.
Penelope CruzSatisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThere is no wealth but life.
John RuskinIt's about death as much as it is about life [on gardening]
Germaine GreerThe resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.
Francis X ClinesThe wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin YutangWhen you're the mother of small children, life becomes a holiday.
Kate WinsletIf I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
Chaka KhanJust as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren KierkegaardOur job is to bring the dead facts to life.
William BernbachNo one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.
Martin LawrenceAs far as my early days as a professional actor go, I'm no longer subsisting off a diet of Ichiban and Kraft Dinner... Life is good
Lexa DoigThe shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt
Calvin TrillinThe secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Anthony RobbinsLife's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
Lord ByronKeith has given me a reason to enjoy life again [on her husband]
Nicole KidmanA child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value
Caroline NortonSome people dance through life, not having a steady job or a steady marriage, and this and that.
Nastassja KinskiPeople say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall SmithModern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.
Pope John Paul IIAs our life is very short, so it is very miserable, and therefore it is well it is short
Bishop Jeremy TaylorPlease don't make me out to be a cad [on revelations about his private life]
Mark NicholasTo regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace StevensThis horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
Malcolm MuggeridgeThe sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
Iris MurdochThis was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas MannProbably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
Emo PhilipsI've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.
PeleI've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.
Gina LollobrigidaI object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles KetteringLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Kahlil GibranYou cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Zig ZiglarI'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon JohnsonYou are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.
If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag HammarskjoldEach life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen KingMy life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.
Gloria TreviAll changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole FranceA life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard ShawA life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
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