Life Quotes

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee Proverb

Never regret what made you smile. Just learn from the tears that followed.
Author Unknown

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
Herbert Samuel

There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen

We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.
Author Unknown

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Author Unknown

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
Djuna Barnes

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Lilly Tomlin

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
Sholom Aleichem

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
Benjamin Franklin

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant

It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
Bill Gates

Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
Bob Monkhouse

I came into this world black, naked and ugly. And no matter how much I accumulate here, it's a short journey. I will go out of this world black, naked and ugly. So I enjoy life.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Jalacy Hawkins)

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
Lin Yutang

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
Douglas Adams

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Men deal with life, as children with their play
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
William Cowper

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
Jim Carrey

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
Anita Shreve

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
Judy Blume

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days you will be right.
Unknown author

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim
Bertrand Russell

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER."
Willliam S. Burroughs

Life is just a phase you're going through...you'll get over it.
Author Unknown