Life quotes

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” Simone de Beauvoir

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” Simone de Beauvoir

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.” Simone de Beauvoir

“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.” Simone de Beauvoir

“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.” Simone de Beauvoir

“Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.” Simone de Beauvoir

“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.” Simone de Beauvoir

“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.” William Blake

“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” William Blake

“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.” William Blake

“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.” Francis Bacon

“Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.” Francis Bacon

“But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.” Francis Bacon

“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.” Francis Bacon

“Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.” Francis Bacon

“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.” Francis Bacon

“It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.” Francis Bacon

“Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.” David Bowie

“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.” David Bowie

“Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'” David Bowie

“But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.” David Bowie

“I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.” David Bowie

“That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.” David Bowie

“This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.” John Rockefeller

“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.” John Rockefeller

“I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.” John Rockefeller

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.” Rainer Maria Rilke