How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Life
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat and man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
-John Wayne
In three words I can sum up everything I've learnt about life: it goes on.
-Robert Frost
If you can always smile at life, life will always smile at you.
-Mirra Alfassa "Mirra Alfassa"
