Quotes about life

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Jean Giraudoux

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Henry Kissinger

Humanity is quite a unique species, since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out.

Ramman Kenoun

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Ogden Nash

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Evita Perón

We need to find the courage to say 'no' to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Barbara De Angelis

When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who want it the most always like it the least.

George Chapman

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Isaac Asimov

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Havelock Ellis

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Alexis Carrel

The person, who causes the downfall of a noble woman who causes loss to his friend who despite of his superiority is ignorant, is called a fallen man.

Atharvaveda

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

Idi Amin

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

Irish Proverb

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Irish Proverb

To the raven her own chick is white.

Irish Proverb

I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.

Indian Proverb

I don't think that making ourselves invulnerable to feeling any onslaught to our feelings will help us in life, ultimately. I think we only learn and grow by allowing ourselves to be really challenged by those feelings that do overwhelm us occasionally.

Ben Kingsley

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

George Savile

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Germaine Greer

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Alfred A. Montapert

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought, it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

George Savile

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

George Savile

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Hans Christian Andersen

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing, everything goes through us.

Eugene Delacroix

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anaïs Nin