Quotes about Life
But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine
— Thomas Jefferson
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
— John Donne
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— Aristotle
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...
— William Saroyan
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day
— George Eliot
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.
— Aristotle
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
— Oscar Wilde
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
— Charles Dickens
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
— Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
— Marilyn Monroe