TOPICS
SPEAKERS
HOME
BROWSE TOPICS
BROWSE SPEAKERS

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
...
111
112
113
114
115
 		...
NOT YET RATING ▼
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.
- T.H. White
Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...
- Michel Houellebecq
Whatever
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
- Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Inspirational, Life
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.
- Jocelyn Soriano
Mend My Broken Heart
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Inspirational, Life
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Life
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
- Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Life
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
- Allen Saunders
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Topic: Life
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
- Sharon Salzberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
- Jay Asher
Thirteen Reasons Why
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.
- T.H. White
Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...
- Michel Houellebecq
Whatever
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
- Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Inspirational, Life
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.
- Jocelyn Soriano
Mend My Broken Heart
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Inspirational, Life
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Life
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
- Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Life
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
- Allen Saunders
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Topic: Life
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
- Sharon Salzberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
- Jay Asher
Thirteen Reasons Why
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.
- T.H. White
Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Life
Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...
- Michel Houellebecq
Whatever
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Inspirational, Life
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
- Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Inspirational, Life
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.
- Jocelyn Soriano
Mend My Broken Heart
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Inspirational, Life
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Life
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
- Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Life
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
- Allen Saunders
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
- Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Topic: Life
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
- Sharon Salzberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
- Jay Asher
Thirteen Reasons Why
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
Topic: Life
...
111
112
113
114
115
 		...