life quotes

“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.”

— Franz Kafka

“Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.”

— Fridtjof Nansen

“Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems. ”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“An evil life is a kind of death.”

— Ovid

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

— William Shakespeare

“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”

— William Shakespeare

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

— William Shakespeare

“I bear a charmed life. ”

— William Shakespeare

“You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life. ”

— Robert Redford

“Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.”

— Robert Redford

“As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.”

— Robert Redford

“I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life. ”

— Robert Redford

“Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it. ”

— Robert Redford

“What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.”

— Robert Redford

“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!”

— Robert Rodriguez

“The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.”

— Erno Rubik

“Our whole life is solving puzzles.”

— Erno Rubik

“The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.”

— Erno Rubik

“Death is just life's next big adventure.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Life is a lot like skateboarding.”

— Lil Wayne

“I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.”

— Lil Wayne

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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
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— Dr Seuss

“If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.”

— Eminem