How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Life
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
-Benjamin Franklin
Every chapter in the Book of Life defines our character and tells us who we are
-Anonymous "Anonymous"
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It's just that . . . I just think that some things are meant to be broken, imperfect and chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.
-Sarah Dessen
"The Truth About Forever"
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
"Eat, Pray, Love"
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
-Proverbs "Sanskrit Proverb"
The human life is not meant for compromises, but to explore and tread the path
of life on the basis of your skills and talents.
-Deep Trivedi
What most counts is not to live, but to live right.
-Socrates
