Top 100 If Life Quotes
#1. Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.
James Hearst
#2. If Life flashes before your eyes just before you die ... mine will be wearing a trench coat
Josh Stern
#4. 'If life is pain, one could say that killing is an act of compassion. I look forward to my own death, you know. But dying is like losing you virginity. You can only do it once. I'm saving it for the right moment.'
Amanda Steiger
#5. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#7. Everything has seemed beckoning and ahead, though I am unsure now if life has not suddenly passed me like a big rumbling semi and left me flattened here by the road.
Richard Ford
#8. Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if life gives us what we need in order to fulfill the path that was in place at our birthing.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#9. If life was simpler we wouldn't get lost in it
Clive Barker
#10. If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.
Max Tegmark
#11. If life is a dream, I never want to awaken.
W.K. Pomeroy
#12. If life were a movie, we'd have had what they call a "meet cute".
James Patterson
#13. If life isn't dangerous, you aren't living it right.
Morgan Stone
#14. If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
Pythagoras
#15. If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
Yoshida Kenko
#16. In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.
Dallas Willard
#17. If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?
Pearl S. Buck
#19. If life's big puzzle makes you feel broken and shattered, we hope that our book will help you look at the spaces between each piece. You'll find the answers here.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#20. If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.
Joe Abercrombie
#21. Life is all about love. Everything - hate, lust, money, power, death, birth - it all stems from love. If life were put in a giant pot and boiled like a piece of chicken, all the fat would melt away, and what you'd be left with is love.
J. Matthew Nespoli
#22. It would be nice if life weren't so messy, but that's just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but most of the time we just spend our existence cleaning up the messes we make - and sometimes the messes of other people, people about whom we care most in the world.
Craig Johnson
#23. Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
Jerome A. Miller
#24. The writer's creed: If life hands you lemons--write The Lemon Cookbook!
Sharon Geltner
#26. If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?
Mardy Grothe
#27. If life gives you lemons, make apple juice and make people wonder how the hell you did it.
Gurbaksh Chahal
#28. The purpose of life is to play. The purpose of work is to be as much like play as possible. If life comes to entail too much work, see item one.
Loren Woodson
#29. If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.
Ferdinand Mount
#30. If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement?
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Publilius Syrus
#31. Wanting and hating and fearing . . . and misery. As if life itself had fallen on her like stones, all at the age of three.
Stephen King
#33. IF YOU HURT INSIDE, GET CERTIFIED, AND IF LIFE SHOULD TREAT YOU BAD ...
DON'T GET EE-EE-EVEN, GET MAD!
Alan Moore
#34. If life is a flower, then love is the beauty of that flower.
Debasish Mridha
#35. I'm not saying that kinda life's bad. But I wonder, y'know, if life should really be that easy, that comfortable. It might be better to go our separate ways for a while, and if we find out that we really can't get along without each other, then we get back together.
Haruki Murakami
#36. If love is an attraction,
then love may be the first.
If life is the source of all creation,
then love might be the point of action.
Let life and love live together
Let's love win over life forever.
Debasish Mridha
#38. If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.
Charlotte Bronte
#39. What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.
Jimmy Buffett
#40. If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
John Clare
#41. We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
Terry Brooks
#42. If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.
Linda Barnes
#43. If life hands you a lemon, don't complain, but instead make lemonade to sell those who are thirsty from complaining.
Napoleon Hill
#44. It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful.
Richard Flanagan
#45. If life were a camera, i would be feeling a little out of frame.
Jaeda DeWalt
#47. We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
Yvon Chouinard
#48. If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?
Erma Bombeck
#49. If life is merely an illusion what can her truth be?
Sorin Cerin
#50. Love as if you are born to love; live as if life is for love.
Debasish Mridha
#51. If life was a movie and someone asked you what kind of a movie it was the best answer would be: it's a movie that makes you laugh and cry at the same time. Grandpa knew that. pg. 223
Marcelo Figueras
#52. If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
Aberjhani
#54. Today, I have nothing to do except to feel the joy if life.
Debasish Mridha
#55. If life doesn't kill you, emptiness in Life will surely Kill You.
Unknown
#56. Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one
! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
Stephen Sondheim
#58. If life is demanding something from us then it expects us to supply the answers to those things it is demanding from us.
Sunday Adelaja
#59. They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.
E.L. Konigsburg
#60. Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts ... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#61. And this I do believe above all, especially in times of greater discouragement, that I must BELIEVE-that I must believe in my fellow people-that I must believe in myself-that I must believe in God-if life is to have any meaning.
Margaret Chase Smith
#62. Why did You give us so many stories about miracles? Why did You
send Your Son down from heaven? Why did You give us movies if life doesn't ever end well?
What kind of fucking God are You? Do You want me to be miserable for the rest of my life?
Matthew Quick
#63. Even if life as a whole is meaningless, perhaps that's nothing to worry about. Perhaps we can recognise it and just go on as before.
Thomas Nagel
#64. If life can remove someone you never wanted to lose, it can replace them with someone you never dreamed of wanting.
Char Sharp
#65. Why we are gentlemen if life is not gentle with us?
M.F. Moonzajer
#67. If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
Douglas Adams
#68. Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
D.H. Lawrence
#69. If life hands you lemons,keep them. Because, hey, free lemons.-T-Shirt
Darynda Jones
#70. If life didn't give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff, in order to prove them wrong.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. If life were predictable it would cease to be life,and be without flavor
Eleanor Roosevelt
#72. We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
#73. If life is just, then just what do you live for?
Zeth
#74. It was important that I experience disappointments and work for what I wanted, for it to have meaning. Besides, if life always comes easily, there would be very little passion to pour into one's work.
Miralee Ferrell
#75. The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?
Woody Allen
#76. If life is for love, then start loving at this very moment.
Debasish Mridha
#77. If life hands you lemons turn around and make grape juice then stand back and watch while everyone try's to figure out how the fuck you did it.
Emma O'Connor
#78. If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the extra time to do so.
Tom Althouse
#79. If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.
Jonathan Cainer
#80. If life is a magnificent journey, then peace is the way and happiness is the destination.
Debasish Mridha
#81. What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.
Jennifer Niven
#82. Man's mortality is therefore a phenomenon that runs counter to his nature in that it opposes that for which he has been designed. This is precisely why the human soul is restless: if life leads only to death, then nothing can ever be meaningful.
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
#83. Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.
Lyall Watson
#84. If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
Santosh Kalwar
#85. So many people accuse and mistreat others just because of their present state of life, as if life is just a one day journey, and they forget that the story line can change tomorrow!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#87. I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.
Lucien Carr
#88. Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!
Timothy Leary
#89. If life gives you lemons, find someone who's life gives them vodka and throw a party.
Kevin Ward
#90. Ceux qui luttent ce sont ceux qui vivent..
And down here they luttent a very great deal indeed..
But if life be the desideratum,. why grieve,. ils vivent..
Stevie Smith
#91. If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
#92. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices.
Neil Gaiman
#93. If life is a game... I need new dice!
Jay Little
#94. If life a joke then I'm waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I'm bout the bun.
Mac Miller
#95. To say, "I've been converted and that's that," is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.
Steve Goodier
#96. ...if life never changed, there would be no room for good things that are still to happen.
Elizabeth Harmon
#97. If Life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone
John Rzeznik
#98. Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
Zora Neale Hurston
#99. If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#100. If life is a gift, then the more you partake in it, the more you show thanks.
Susan Neiman
