Quotes about Life
My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.
— Ricky Gervais
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
— Cicero
I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
— Amy Grant
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?
— Herbert Hoover
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
— Peter Kreeft
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
— Ernest Hemingway
A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
— Philip Yancey
The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life
— Aristotle
All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.
— Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.
— Marty Rubin