Top 100 Know Life Quotes
#1. Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.
Erma Bombeck
#2. And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.
Vincent Van Gogh
#3. Gabe, did you pray?'
'Sort of.'
'Me too. Do you believe?'
'No. Do you?'
'No.'
'I don't believe,' said Gabriel, 'But I have faith, if you know what I mean.'
'What in?'
'I don't know, life, carrying on, I suppose.'
'Yes.
Monica Ali
#5. Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.
Frederick Lenz
#6. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?
Stephen King
#7. You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
Carrie Jones
#8. Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun.
Jose Garces
#9. One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#11. I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!
Kate Winslet
#12. You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.
Meg Cabot
#13. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself ...
Boris Pasternak
#15. Aunt Esther: You think you supposed to know everything. Life is a mystery. Don't you know life is a mystery? I see you still trying to figure it out. It ain't all for you to know. It's all an adventure. That's all life is. But you got to trust that adventure.
August Wilson
#16. You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and- and if you're lucky, next week.
Garrison Keillor
#17. You know life is weird. There are times I feel so grown up and like I know everything I need to know, but then I think about the future and realize how little I do.
Jillian Dodd
#18. Just know life keeps moving forward, and the hits life gives you are for a reason, to make you a better, stronger and wiser person.
*Miss J*
Miss J
#20. Words; the powerful air that can change the mind, the body and the spirit in the twinkle of an eye! He who don't know words don't know life!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. You need to know life is on your side.
Bentinho
#23. You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
Tanya Tucker
#24. You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.
Matt Emmons
#25. Nothing ever really happens, you know. Life is infinitesimal and incremental and inconsequential.
Sherman Alexie
#26. More than sex. More than money. You know, life is not endless is it? Cash, cars, cocaine, and girls. It's more than that. And there is a spiritual dimension to people ... we are driven to want something more.
Jeanette Winterson
#27. Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
Patrick Ness
#28. I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.
Oscar Wilde
#29. If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Confucius
#30. How does anyone know from moment to moment what to say or do next until he senses the reaction to what he just did? He doesn't know. Life is always action/reaction. No monologues. No prepared speeches. An improvisation no matter how we mentally rehearse our big moment.
Robert McKee
#31. It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all
Joni Mitchell
#32. They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.
William Alexander Percy
#33. The point is we both know life and understand death - and both believe treatment in hell and everywhere else depends on money.
James Clavell
#35. I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.
Aaron Rodgers
#36. You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
Paul Simon
#37. You know, life would be so much simpler if it weren't for all the people. ... People are overrated. I'm sure I would be able to deal with things much better if it weren't for them.
Katarina Bivald
#38. ...I'm ANGRY. I know life is hard, I think EVERYONE knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to BITE?
Why are there no second choices?
Stephen King
#39. I know life sometimes can get tough!
And I know life sometimes can be a drag!
But people, we have been given a gift,
we have been given a road
And that road's name is Rock and Roll!
Paul Stanley
#40. Art educates. That's why writers must know life ... If the writer knows life, his work is often progressive, even though his own consciousness may lag behind.
Slawomir Mrozek
#42. We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Clarence Darrow
#43. No meditation, no life.
Know meditation, know life.
Osho
#44. There is only one funda to know life, and no one knows it.
Vikrmn
#45. Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Samuel Johnson
#46. But one thing I do know: life and time are ghosted creatures for us all. They belong to us - and are not ours at the same time.
Joan D. Chittister
#47. You can't lie to kids about drugs. They know about drugs. You can't say they're just all bad. They know life is a little more complicated. I have never done heroin. I would never recommend heroin, but it hasn't hurt my record collection.
Bill Maher
#48. What is serious in laughing, worrying, grieving, mourning, concerning about anything which is temporary? Well, it is funny, actually, when you know life isn't immortal.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#49. I know life all too well. But I turned from that path. I'm not a rat anymore. I'm the lightning girl, and now I have too many ideas to count. Freedom, revenge, liberty, everything that fuels the sparks within me, and the resolve that keeps me going.
Victoria Aveyard
#50. Jericho didn't seem to know life beyond the pages of a musty old book, and he didn't seem interested in knowing anything beyond that, either.
Libba Bray
#51. In raising children, life brings forth those things where you do what you should never have done and what I taught you never to do. And when my kids have done those things, I just kind of look at them and say, 'Now you know life.'
George Foreman
#52. How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!
H.P. Lovecraft
#53. Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord!
Edgar Cayce
#54. [in 1979] You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?
Laurence Olivier
#55. I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.
Laini Taylor
#56. A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#57. I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!
Elaine Stritch
#58. Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
Robert Henri
#59. Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.
Sarah Dessen
#60. This is really enlightening. I didn't know life was supposed to be easy. How could I have lived all these years and not realized life was supposed to be easy? I feel really stupid now.
Amanda Usen
#61. You know why love stories have happy endings?" I shake my head.
"Because they end too early," she continues. "They always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life.
Hank Moody
#62. Cause you know, life is what we make it and a chance is like a picture, it'd be nice if you just take it
Drake
#63. Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.
William A. Drake
#64. You never know, life is short but it's wide
Wendy Mass
#65. You know, life is not one in which you just get to choose the things every day that come easily to you. And it's also true - and this is the self-esteem problem - you learn that there are people who are better at things than you are.
Condoleezza Rice
#66. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
Hakeem Olajuwon
#67. The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
#68. I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.
Graciela Iturbide
#69. No Jesus, No life.
Know Jesus, Know Life.
Anonymous
#70. But when I told you I loved you, I meant it. I didn't mean that I'd love you only if it was easy, or only if it was drama-free. I think we both know life isn't like that.
J. Sterling
#71. Bartleby is never happy, but he never can be, you know. Life in general offends him. Happiness is something that happens to other people, because life happens to Bartleby. It happens to him frequently and unwarrantedly, and every time he is forced to suffer it, he is always disappointed.
Michelle Franklin
#72. stop making plans, cause i know life has a a funny ways of ruining it all
Rina Suryakusuma
#73. I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears
Miyavi
#74. I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.
Agyness Deyn
#75. Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
#76. My view is that, you know, life unfolds at its own rhythm. You know, I have never lived a life that I thought I could plan out. And I'm just trying to do the best I can every day. I find I have a lot to get done between the time I get up and the time I go to bed.
Hillary Clinton
#77. While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead ... While you do not know life, how can you know about death
Confucius
#78. That's not fair!" Charlotte said.
"I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind.
Michaela MacColl
#79. Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.
Elena Ferrante
#80. As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.
Albert Schweitzer
#81. Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.
Jaggi Vasudev
#82. Well, you know, life marches on. And sometimes we have to join the parade whether we want to or not.
Barbara O'Connor
#83. To really know life you've got to be part of life. You must get down and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence. You have to rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what he is.
L. Ron Hubbard
#84. Life has its share of joys and laughter - but we also know life's road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard - but God is good, and heaven is real!
Billy Graham
#85. Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
Oscar Wilde
#86. As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
Candice Millard
#87. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!
Joyce Meyer
#88. But maybe...maybe you have to know where you come from, and what you are, before you run away to become something new.
Tanya Lloyd Kyi
#89. I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left you unfulfilled, you can't go around seeking it at other people's doors. Even if it is at the place you're most familiar with, and the sort of act that is your forte.
Haruki Murakami
#90. If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
Ray Bradbury
#91. This is not the proper place to begin speaking of this new passion of Ivan Fyodorovich's, which later affected his whole life: it could all serve as the plot for another story, for a different novel, which I do not even know that I shall ever undertake.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#92. Don't ever try to judge me dude. You don't know what the fuck I've been through
Eminem
#93. The only way to get what you want is to admit you don't really know what you want. But in the end, or course, you never truly get what you want. So just enjoy the ride.
Gregor Collins
#94. Yes, I will probably be that way. I am sure I will. I think that it shouldn't stop you. I think of course my life is going to change, and I definitely will make sacrifices, but you know, I think I will be able to bring hopefully my little rider with me.
Beyonce Knowles
#95. When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone.
Anusha Atukorala
#96. You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal.
Adriana Locke
#97. We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.
Deena Kastor
#98. Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
Sigmund Freud
#99. You need to remember that. If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#100. No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever know or see.
J. Michael Straczynski
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