Foolish Life Quotes

#1. I didn't ask anything - I hadn't the words. Instead I spoke the smallest one - the one I should have used more in my short and foolish life.

Sorry.

Mark Lawrence

#2. Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

David Gemmell

#3. I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something in me gave an answer and was the receiver of those distant calls from worlds far above.

Hermann Hesse

#4. It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#5. Sticking to old and narrow views of life makes us look foolish in God

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.

Sandy Fussell

#7. The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering
a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.

John Piper

#8. If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.

Jack White

#9. How foolish we can be in life when driven by righteousness

Charity Parkerson

#10. Free and profound thought, which strives towards the comprehension of life, and a complete scorn for the foolish vanity of the world - man has never known anything higher than these two blessings.

Anton Chekhov

#11. Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother. Love the Madonna and pray the rosary, for her Rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today. All graces given by God pass through the Blessed Mother.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#12. But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life. - Lena Gray

Maeve Binchy

#13. Shakespeare," he thought as he scribbled away. "Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

Rajneesh

#15. It is foolish to be in thrall to fame and fortune, engaged in painful striving all your life with never a moment of peace and tranquillity.

Yoshida Kenko

#16. A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

Phyllis McGinley

#17. To strive to better oneself is natural and expected.
To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy.

T.A. Miles

#18. The most foolish thing I've ever done related to money was spend too much of my life worrying about whether I had enough or didn't have enough, I always felt I never had enough. I cheated myselfout of living in the moment, and I'll bet I die with a lot left over.

Lois P Frankel

#19. What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be quite erroneous? And what would be more important than to find our true place in the universe by removing one by one these unfortunate vestiges of earlier beliefs?

Francis Crick

#20. My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.

Jon Katz

#21. He had made a series of foolish decisions in his life. He had not planned well. He had not had courage when he needed it. His decisions had been short sighted. The decisions of his peers had been short sighted. These decisions had been foolish and expedient.

Dave Eggers

#22. To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. the implied Shakespeare is thoroughly engaged with life, and he does not conceal his judgment on the selfish, the foolish, and the cruel.

Wayne C. Booth

#24. Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming

Sunday Adelaja

#25. I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Joyce Meyer

#26. How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

Barbara Kingsolver

#27. We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

P. J. O'Rourke

#28. From where I stood it was a pose that collapsed many periods in her life into one: mother and lover, big sister, best friend, superstar and diplomat, billionaire and street kid, foolish girl and woman of substance.

Zadie Smith

#29. I hope," she said, "that you didn't stay out of some foolish romantical notion."
He looked down, staring at the tumbled bedclothes. "Such as?"
"Saving my life."
He looked up again with a grimace. "Naturally not. I usually throw my houseguests off the cliff.

Laura Kinsale

#30. We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

LeVar Burton

#31. Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

George Orwell

#32. I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.

Robyn Davidson

#33. I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.

Richard Branson

#34. Only foolish people believe. A man of understanding has faith not belief. Faith is different. Faith means trusting life, trusting it so absolutely that one is ready to go with it anywhere.

Osho

#35. A True Wise Man Surrenders Every Thing Freely To God While Alive.
A Foolish Man Surrenders Every Thing Forcefully At The Time Of Death.

Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

#36. Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?

Osho

#37. I was crazy. I was crazy in the way a child is crazy, in the way of someone who believes, with rash fervor, that life can be - that it will yet be, and most certainly - as you would wish it. How could I have been so foolish?

Claire Messud

#38. Life is merely a numbers game, a series of odds, and eventually we all lose. To think otherwise is foolish. But if we didn't, why would anyone ever bother getting out of bed in the morning?

Pete Wentz

#39. Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.

Manoj Vaz

#40. Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you. You might have known such happiness was not for you.

Anne Bronte

#41. Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.

Christine Kane

#42. Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things 'now' or wait until 'then.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#43. Sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life.

Wallace Stegner

#44. Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

Zoroaster

#45. Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

Neil Gaiman

#46. So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

Ernest Llewellyn Woodward

#47. The pride Kaspar had seen in his father's eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, had branded the boy for life. 'Never be afraid.' He knew that no matter what, any choice must be made fearlessly, or else all would be lost.

Raymond E. Feist

#48. One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too
deeply?

Diane Ackerman

#49. Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

John Spence

#50. Life is a gift for the wise, a playground for the foolish, a heaven for the rich, and a hell for the poor.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#51. I do find life difficult at times ... and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy ... I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

Alison Uttley

#52. No one presumes to teach an art that he has not first mastered through study. How foolish therefore for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts.

St. Gregory Dialogos

#53. The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#54. In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

Alvin Plantinga

#55. This is life ... Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak
the ones too small or too foolish to fight back
die in agony and blood.

Dan Wells

#56. Whatever you do, foolish or wise, important or unimportant, do with love and enthusiasm.

Debasish Mridha

#57. We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?

Debasish Mridha

#58. Wise men verifies the truth of what they heard, foolish men makes conclusion based on what they heard".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#59. Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed - because foolish women gave them the chance

Tessa Dare

#60. The foolish rush to end their lives.
Only the steadfast soul survives.

Christine De Pizan

#61. Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#62. How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

Bill Holm

#63. This is my fear, of a life wasted, of a cause misbegotten, of a belief that is, in the end, an empty and unattainable ideal, the foolish designs of an innocent child who believed there could be more.

R.A. Salvatore

#64. God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#65. I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary
you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#66. The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#67. Keep your negativity to yourself. After watching you poison your own life with your opinions, I would be foolish to let you do the same to mine.

Steve Maraboli

#68. In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.

Libba Bray

#69. There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky.

Thomm Quackenbush

#70. Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them.

Ken Follett

#71. It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

David Levithan

#72. We always glorify war, but why? We have war memorials everywhere but I never saw a peace memorial yet. We teach our children war game. We let them play game which is not other than a legal war but we expect peace from them. How foolish that could be!

Debasish Mridha

#73. What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods.

David Marusek

#74. There is a thin line of difference in being courageous and foolish!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#75. To love women. To pleasure them, to make them laugh. To be foolish for them. To protect them. To respect them. To listen to them. They are life-givers. To live is to love them.

Pete Hamill

#76. I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

Thomas Jane

#77. To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.

Roseanne Barr

#78. ...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man's world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#79. Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

#80. I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.

Will Smith

#81. A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

Chanakya

#82. If there was one thing that life has taught me, it's to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.

Anne-Laure Bondoux

#83. Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish
to just ask the question.

Melissa Senate

#84. Foolish people spend time and money poring over horoscopes and consulting so-called psychics trying to see the dark unknown. How much better to walk through life holding the hand of One who knows the way and cares for us!

Adrian Rogers

#85. How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN.

Steve Prefontaine

#86. Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

J. Philippe Rushton

#87. More than anything in life, she wishes she'd let him. That she'd smiled for the camera. That she'd said yes. Life was gone before you knew it;how foolish she'd been to refuse any of it.

Jennifer Haigh

#88. All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

Vincent Bugliosi

#89. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven ...

Saint Augustine

#90. Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now?

Nadege Richards

#91. It would be foolish to be frightened by death, because all of us, sooner or later, are going to die. And only those who accept this fact are prepared for life.

Paulo Coelho

#92. She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever calls her that. The Scientists feel foolish addressing her in long, bewildering strings of alphanumerics. They have told her so themselves. To save time, they simply call her Snow.

Nenia Campbell

#93. Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Gautama Buddha

#94. He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.

Alfred The Great

#95. Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Mark Twain

#96. Pride is a foolish thing, but a powerful force

Patrick Rothfuss

#97. Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#98. To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.

Robert Silverberg

#99. Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.

Tom Hiddleston

#100. Foolish wise folk sneer at you; foolish wise folk would pull up the useless lilies, the needless roses, from the garden, would plant in their places only serviceable wholesome cabbage. But the Gardener knowing better, plants the silly short-lived flowers; foolish wise folk, asking for what purpose.

Jerome K. Jerome