Life Quotes

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this – with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need – this life is hell.

It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.

All my life has been a struggle to know, what to hold on and what to let go, but still, i end up sitting in the corner of the room with a flickering candle, whimpering, naked, shuddering, lost.

Time wounds all heels.

What is life for? Life is for you.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.