Quotes of Existence - somelinesforyou

“ There must be more to life than having everything. ”

- Maurice Sendak

“ Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. ”

- Robert Frost

“ You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ”

- Elia Kazan

“ Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ”

- George Santayana

“ Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ How empty is theory in presence of fact! ”

- Mark Twain

“ Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. ”

- Robert Frost

“ From rescuing lives to rebuilding lives. There's no certainty as to when this community will be reestablished. ”

- Rick Perry

“ When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?". ”

- Sidney J. Harris

“ Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ”

- Lord Byron

“ The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. ”

- Louis Pasteur

“ Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light. ”

- Evelyn Scott

“ The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great — and they know I know it. ”

- Clark Gable

“ Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. ”

- Nikki Giovanni

“ Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. ”

- George Orwell

“ And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. ”

- Ernest Renan

“ What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. ”

- Boris Pasternak

“ A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.". ”

- Stephen Crane

“ The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. ”

- Marilyn Ferguson

“ All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. ”

- V. S. Pritchett

“ Life is a little gleam of time between two eternities. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet? ”

- Edwin Markham

“ Without music, life would be a mistake. The German imagines even God singing songs. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche
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