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Quotes About Life

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

It is not length of life, but depth of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anais Nin

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. – Seneca

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
– Buddha

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. – Lou Erickson

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. – Benjamin Disraeli

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. – Margaret Fuller

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. – Ann Landers

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
– Winston Churchill

Life is just a chance to grow a soul. – A Powell Davies

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out. – Albert Camus

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness. – Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
– Albert Schweitzer

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
- Ralph Ellison

Life is “trying things to see if they work.” – Ray Bradbury

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. – Sarah Bernhardt

The goal of all life is death. – Sigmund Freud

Quotes About Death

The worst is death, and death will have his day. – William Shakespeare

Heaven gives its favorites: early death.
– Lord Byron

The sole equality on earth is death. – Philip J Bailey

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? – Chuck Pahlaniuk

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. – Oscar Wilde

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Winston Churchill

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend – provided, of course, that he really is dead. – Voltaire

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
– Napoleon Bonaparte

After your death you will be what you were before your birth. – Arthur Schopenhaeur

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over… Death is not anything… death is not… It’s the absence of presence, nothing more… the endless time of never coming back… a gap you can’t see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound. – Tom Stoppard

The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity. – George Santayana

For mortals vanished from the day’s sweet light. I shed no tear; rather I mourn for those who day and night live in death’s fear. – (Greek Quotation)

I have only one curiosity left: death. – Coco Chanel

Quotes About Love


The hottest love has the coldest end.
– Socrates

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. – St. Augustine

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. – Ralph Connor

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. – Thomas Fuller

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The courses of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare

A heart that loves is always young. – (Greek Proverb)

Love doesn’t sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread. Remade all the time…Made new.
– Le Guin

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. – Karen Sunde

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Elizabeth Browning

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart. – Josiah G Holland

You love simply because you cannot help it.
– Kim Anderson

True love doesn’t have a happy ending: True love doesn’t have an ending. – (Anonymous Quotation)

Quotes About Hate

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. – (Arab Proverb)

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.
– Kurt Tucholsky

When we don’t know who to hate, we hate ourselves. – Chuck Pahlaniuk

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
– Coretta Scott King

You cannot hate other people without hating your self. – Oprah Winfrey

In time we hate that which we often fear. – William Shakespeare

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
– Andret Gide

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated. – George Bernard Shaw

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn. – Marcel Jouhandeua

When love is suppressed hate takes its place. – Havelock Ellis

A true man hates no one. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. – Martin Luther King Jr.

I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn’t interest me. – Chris Rapier

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