Top 100 Life At All Quotes
#1. If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.
Alan Sillitoe
#2. I love the passions. They create such sensation! Anger, grief, fear, love, hate, excitement. The fierce emotions make one feel. Such are a gift, so one knows one is alive. To live without passion is to have no life at all.
Nikki Sex
#3. any life at all is probably more than any of us deserves.
Peter Swanson
#4. You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.
James Baldwin
#5. I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#6. My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
Martha Plimpton
#7. You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all ... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.
Luis Bunuel
#8. You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just won't even go out of the house at all - but it makes life so unenjoyable. You can't go out, you can't hold hands with your girlfriend, you can't do any of these things.
Austin Butler
#9. On the other side of the curtain, two separate wars were being fought. One was to save the life of a women who'd been beaten to near death by her husband. The other was to allow her child to have any kind of a life at all.
Jodi Picoult
#12. I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. This was more true when I was living in California, when I didn't lead a writer's life at all.
Joan Didion
#13. I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
Vanilla Ice
#14. When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#15. There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
Wallace Shawn
#17. You should always play with and not according to the rules, because a life with no danger in it is no life at all.
Nancy Huston
#18. Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
Virginia Woolf
#19. She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, which was not life at all
(But that she had not lived enough to know)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#21. A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
Clive James
#22. A love life without worries is no love life at all.
Tadahiko Nagao
#24. I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.
Alexander Downer
#25. It had to be hammered home quite a bit because I didn't see any humour in my life at all.
Jimmy Carr
#26. I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.
Wallace Shawn
#27. Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had this epiphany. But I knew I was lucky before that, so it's not like I suddenly realised how lucky I am.
Clare Balding
#29. If you don't make life fun, then that is no life at all.
J.p. McNeill
#30. I know you will remember this - that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world - no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.
William, Saroyan
#31. You have to keep on with a house, day after day, I think. Heating, cleaning, opening and closing windows, making sounds to fill the silence, cooking and washing up, laundering and polishing. As soon as you stop, there may as well never have been any life at all. A house dies as quickly as a body.
Helen Dunmore
#32. Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.
David Chalmers
#33. A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all.
Haruki Murakami
#34. In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.
Janine Benyus
#35. But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#37. Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?
Saint Augustine
#39. It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all
Joni Mitchell
#40. All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.
William Macneile Dixon
#41. I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
Larry The Cable Guy
#43. If your life doesn't flash in front of your eyes, old boy, does that mean you've had no life at all?
Colum McCann
#44. I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
Brigitte Bardot
#46. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
Viktor E. Frankl
#47. An ideal world in my own home ... I'm not yet sure why the prospect appalls me quite so much, but I do know somewhere in me that (he) is wrong, that a life without hatred is no life at all, that my children should be allowed to despise whom they like. Now there's a right worth fighting for ...
Nick Hornby
#48. Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.
Nicholas Sparks
#49. You can do anything you want in this world," J.C. said. "No, you can't," Emily said modestly. "Why, sure you can. And if you don't you'll never know the consequences. You won't be leading any kind of life at all.
Joy Williams
#50. A life without memory is no life at all
Luis Bunuel
#51. A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?
Alexander McCall Smith
#52. Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
Anthony Holden
#54. Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
Tom Stoppard
#55. With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.
Esther Williams
#56. It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.
Michelle Monaghan
#57. My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?
Michael J. Fox
#58. If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
Viktor E. Frankl
#59. Know your purpose. Recognize your talents and capitalize on them. If you live your life for the sole purpose of seeking the approval of others, you will live no life at all.
Kel Kade
#60. If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.
Joe Hill
#61. I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
Jeanette Winterson
#62. I believe that people come into your life and then some go.I also think there's a purpose as to why they were in your life at all.Each one takes a piece of you when they go.Some leave pieces of themselves with you.Sometimes its's wisdom, or maybe,it's a lesson.
Shey Stahl
#63. Think about what life will be like without me because I've already considered that question. And I've decided that no life at all would be better than living without you.
Diana Palmer
#64. Terrible was ... He was a miracle in a world without miracles, and she couldn't believe her luck. And there was nothing, absolutely fucking nothing, that she wouldn't do to keep him in her life. Because without him it wouldn't be a life at all.
Stacia Kane
#65. A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.
Daniel Willey
#66. Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.
Chris Prentiss
#67. We're talking about a revelation here,' Colonel Sanders said, clicking his tongue. 'A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. What you need to do is move from reason that observes to reason that acts. that's what critical.'
~page 275
Haruki Murakami
#68. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. I was born fussy, liked cleanness and orderliness about me and had already been thrown too much into the midst of shiftlessness. The socialists and communists I had seen and heard talk nearly all struck me as men who had no sense of life at all.
Sherwood Anderson
#70. Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.
Jonah Hill
#71. Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.
Nobuo Uematsu
#72. You worry me, Catherine. You seem to think you're quite invincible."
"I'm well aware that I'm not. But I'll not spend my life cowering. That would be no life at all.
Lorraine Heath
#74. I was risking the chance at a new life on uncertainty, and the only thing that was certain was that if I ever returned, I'd come back to no life at all. I collapsed to the floor. I had made my choice.
Karina Halle
#75. You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
Quentin Blake
#76. One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
Alcaeus
#77. We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.
Donna Goddard
#78. If you knew at twenty what you know at thirty-five, what a marvellous life you could have; on the other hand, you might find that you couldn't be bothered to have any life at all.
Hilary Mantel
#79. People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.
Emily Susan Rapp
#80. Alex, I don't need to keep myself safe from you. I don't want to keep myself safe from you. You mean too much to me. I'd rather have a lifetime of heartache, from you breaking my heart, than even imagine my life without you at all. Because a life without you wouldn't be a life at all.
Charles Sheehan-Miles
#81. If you live your life for the sole purpose of seeking the approval of others, you will live no life at all. You
Kel Kade
#82. No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.
Kinky Friedman
#83. And then it struck her that life was sometimes so beautiful that it didn't seem like life at all.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#84. To make the journey without falling deeply in love, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven't tried, then you haven't lived
William Parrish
#85. It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#87. If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.
Laura L. Carstensen
#88. I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.
Nigel Dennis
#89. Why ask art into a life at all, if not to be transformed and enlarged by its presence and mysterious means? Some
Jane Hirshfield
#90. Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.
Charlie Hunnam
#91. My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.
Marcus Samuelsson
#93. To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?
Henry David Thoreau
#95. Being constantly hungry is no life at all.
Emma Woolf
#96. I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
James Taylor
#97. I cannot live in fear of losing him, for fear of not living my life at all.
Serena Valentino
#98. They haven't an idea what happiness is; they don't know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness - no life at all
Leo Tolstoy
#99. My atheism doesn't define my day-to-day life at all. But I realize - and maybe it is because, unlike people who sort of stay comfortably in a religion, I had to do a lot of thinking and reading before I realized that I was an atheist.
Susan Jacoby
#100. If only we would wake from (these) states of oblivion with some certain sense that there was no mystery to life at all, that cruelty was purely impersonal, but we don't.
Anne Rice
