Quotes about Life
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
— Oscar Wilde
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
— Oscar Wilde
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
— Oscar Wilde
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
— Oscar Wilde
Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
— Oscar Wilde
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
— Oscar Wilde
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
— Oscar Wilde
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
— Oscar Wilde
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
— Oscar Wilde
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.
— Oscar Wilde
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
— Oscar Wilde
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is
— Oscar Wilde