What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Life
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
-William Shakespeare
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
-Nelson Mandela "Nelson Mandela"
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
"Flaubert's Parrot"
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
-John Wayne
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is a journey towards the unknown. An empty mind is useful in that journey rather than a mind filled with past.
-J. Krishnamurti
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
-Benjamin Franklin
Rise to the occasion which is life!
-Virginia Euwer Wolff
