If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not this the true romantic feeling – not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe
Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.
Anonymous
Life is a long lesson in humility.
Sir James M. Barrie
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Thomas Walker
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Eugene O’Neill
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler
Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.
Lewis Mumford
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
Frances Cornford
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Sebastien Chamfort
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.
John Keats
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Aesop