QUOTES ABOUT LIFE
Life is a journey filled with moments of joy, struggle, growth, and reflection. The quotes that follow capture different perspectives on what it means to live, love, and learn. Together, they offer insight, inspiration, and reminders that life’s lessons often come from our shared experiences. ◀ Back
CALVIN:
This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?
If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it?
And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?
HOBBES:
I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday?
CALVIN:
Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.
Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
- Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
- Jorge Luis Borges
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
-
Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
Life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.
The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
- Katharine Hepburn
Me: Stories of My Life
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.
- Henry Rollins
The Portable Henry Rollins
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
- Melody Beattie
The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency
One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.
- Anton Chekhov
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware of what they're going through.
- Changes
- David Bowie
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poems
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
- Michel Houellebecq
Platform
CALVIN:
This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?
If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it?
And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?
HOBBES:
I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday?
CALVIN:
Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.
Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
- Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
- Jorge Luis Borges
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
-
Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
Life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.
The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
- Katharine Hepburn
Me: Stories of My Life
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.
- Henry Rollins
The Portable Henry Rollins
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
- Melody Beattie
The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency
One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.
- Anton Chekhov
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware of what they're going through.
- Changes
- David Bowie
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poems
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
- Michel Houellebecq
Platform
CALVIN:
This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?
If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it?
And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?
HOBBES:
I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday?
CALVIN:
Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.
Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
- Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
- Jorge Luis Borges
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
-
Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
Life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.
The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
- Katharine Hepburn
Me: Stories of My Life
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.
- Henry Rollins
The Portable Henry Rollins
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
- Melody Beattie
The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency
One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.
- Anton Chekhov
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware of what they're going through.
- Changes
- David Bowie
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poems
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
- Michel Houellebecq
Platform
