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.
Life, even the hardest life, is the most beautiful, wonderful, and miraculous treasure in the world.
The length of lifetakes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
Only one thing is certain. People get out of life exactly what they put into it.
As long as my lord is alive, he will exercise kingship over Urim.
Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does "life", but not so mind.
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.