“The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”
“Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.”
“The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.”
“The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.”
“I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.”
“Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”
“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
“Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.”
“Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.”
“Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.”
“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”
“Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.”
“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
“Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
“It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.”
“Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.”
“She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.”
“Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
“It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.”
“Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”
“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.”
“People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.”
“Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination”
“There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.”
“There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.”
“Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.”
“Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.”
“We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.”
“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”
“The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.”