life quotes

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. ”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Children are the anchors of a mother's life. ”

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.”

“There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.”

“Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.”

“Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.”

“It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.”

“
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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— Victor Hugo

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

— Victor Hugo

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”

— Victor Hugo

“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. ”

— Victor Hugo

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”

— Victor Hugo

“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”

— Victor Hugo

“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. ”

— Victor Hugo

“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”

— Victor Hugo

“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. ”

— Victor Hugo

“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”

— Victor Hugo

“One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'”

— Victor Hugo

“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.”

— Franz Kafka

“We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us. ”

— Franz Kafka

“The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.”

— Franz Kafka

“If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. ”

— Franz Kafka

“The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.”

— Franz Kafka

“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. ”

— Franz Kafka

“Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. ”

— Franz Kafka