Quotes about Life

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Only love can keep anyone alive...

Youth is the only thing worth having.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?