Life Quotes

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

-- Joseph Campbell

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

-- Robert Frost

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

-- Muhammad Ali

“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.”

-- Albert Einstein

“I love life because what more is there?”

-- Anthony Hopkins

“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

“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.”

-- George Carlin

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

-- Mahatma Gandhi

“Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

-- Jose Ortega y Gasset