Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
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.
My life is much more than boxing — I've been knocked out more outside the ring than in the ring.
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it’s really a wheel.
Defer not the date of repentance for sins and confession in the hope of grace or longevity of life.
My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.