Home / Topics / Life Quotes

Life Quotes

Browse 53183 quotes about Life.

Life Quotes

“Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.”

Life Life Is Kindness Tears Laughter Rain Combination Thoughtful Sunshine

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.”

Men Life Long Dream Life Is Dies Hours Doubt Tears Flower Spring Sick Graves Bitter Dawn Funeral Spring Flowers

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to pay for having once had held against my lip life's brimming cup of hydromel and rue--for having once known woman's holy love and a child's kiss, and for a little space been boon companion to the Day and Night, Fed on the odors of the summer dawn, and folded in the beauty of the stars. Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, and serve the potter as he turns his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!”

Source: The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems

“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'”

“What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.”

Life Art Pain Joy Lost Tears Flower Labor Empty Eternity Breaths Court Ease Streams Shade Fades Tides Worms Fleeting Undone Puff Vapor Short Lived

Author:Alexander Brome

“The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.”

Life Ideas Life Is Youth Tears Majority Entertainment Riches Incline

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.”

Life Age Middle Conditions Tears Sweet Praying Sensations Middle Ages

Author:James A. Garfield

“I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.”

Life Remember Three Given Tears Unhappy Miserable Awards Oscars Three Times Private Life Academy Academy Awards

Author:Anna Held