Life Quotes
“Life” is a smaller page than you might expect, and an older one. Seneca is the most-quoted of the classical writers, and the sourced entries run from Emerson’s journals in 1822 to Carl Jung’s memoir in 1963. Reading it is closer to browsing a shelf of moralists than scrolling a feed of captions.
One entry needs a warning. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” is credited to Søren Kierkegaard all over the internet. The earliest appearance anyone has located is in a 1976 book about Jack Kerouac, which is a long way from nineteenth-century Copenhagen. We keep it listed, with its flag, because people search for it. We would not put his name under it.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.