Life Quotes

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

Classical music is not just entertainment; it's a way of life, a meditation.

My sole object was to lay down my life for my country.

I think that life force is invaluable.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.