Life quotes

“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.” Bob Dylan

“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.” Bob Dylan

“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.” Bob Dylan

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.” Clint Eastwood

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” Edgar Allan Poe

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” Edgar Allan Poe

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” Audrey Hepburn

“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.” Audrey Hepburn

“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.” Audrey Hepburn

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” Helen Keller

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” Helen Keller

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” Helen Keller

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” Helen Keller

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” Helen Keller

“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.” Helen Keller

“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.” Maya Angelou

“My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.” Maya Angelou

“Life loves the liver of it.” Maya Angelou