You can get all A's and still flunk life.
-Walker Percy
"The Second Coming"
Quotations
Life
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
-Henry David Thoreau "Henry David Thoreau"
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-Socrates
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
-Hans Christian Anderson
All the conclusions derived by science with reference to human body will only be
based on 'Ifs and Buts', because the uncertainty of life is the ''play of nature''.
-Deep Trivedi
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"
If there is any planning worth undertaking in human life it is, when one breathes
his last neither should he have any guilt nor dissatisfaction... Despite doing
everything desired, still if he has any kind of remorse or discontent while bidding
goodbye to this world...then what did he do all his life?
-Deep Trivedi
Of winter’s lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart.
-Charles G. Stater "Charles. G. Stater"
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
