Top 100 Life Except Quotes
#1. I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.
Tom Coburn
#2. Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
Lars Von Trier
#3. I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.
Nicole Jordan
#5. God doesn't want you to be addicted to anything in life except Him.
Miles McPherson
#6. Nothing is promised in life except death.
Kanye West
#7. What is there in life except one's ideas,
Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
Wallace Stevens
#8. We can buy most things in life except time.
Ramesh Lohia
#9. I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
Allen Ginsberg
#10. Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
Orhan Pamuk
#11. I've been doin' drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
Bo Burnham
#12. Tonight has been the craziest, most insane night of perhaps my entire life - except the one I was born. I imagine that's insane, coming out of a vagina and all that.
Emma Hart
#13. I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.
Cyril Cusack
#14. Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
Anne Enright
#15. What is the point of life except to gather more experiences and to understand yourself?
Jaym Gates
#16. I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
Kevin Sessums
#17. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Lin Yutang
#18. Nothing makes you happy in life except love... Neither the books you write or cites you see... I am very lonely... If I say that I want to be here in this city close to you until the end of my life would you believe me?
Orhan Pamuk
#19. So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.
Jack Finney
#20. I have done very little in my life except go to school and work for the CIA. Intellectually I think I did everything I could. Emotionally you always think you should have something more.
Tyler Drumheller
#21. Hearing God cannot be a reliable and intelligible fact of life except when we see his speaking as one aspect of his presence with us, of his life in us. Only our communion with God provides the appropriate context for communications between us and him.
Dallas Willard
#22. You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.
David Lange
#23. Being pregnant was the healthiest I've ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes.
Ashlee Simpson
#24. Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except ... me?
Alan Moore
#25. Knew she didn't need another thing for the rest of her life except to be with him. There was such a peace that accompanied that knowledge.
Blake Crouch
#27. I'm an adrenaline junkie, I won't deny it. I'm not addicted to anything in life, except adrenaline.
Sebastian Copeland
#28. I will therefore give myself as a Christ to my neighbor, just as Christ offered himself to me; I will do nothing in this life except what I see is necessary, profitable, and salutary to my neighbor, since through faith I have an abundance of all good things in Christ.
Martin Luther
#29. It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American.
Erica Jong
#30. Gandhiji was not born in freedom. All his life, except for a few months. lay within the framework of colonial rule. A good part of that life lay buried in prison cells. Yet he was always the free man, while those who held him imprisoned were the unfree ones.
Bhabani Bhattacharya
#31. But how can she ever get out of it, her life, except through him?
Margaret Atwood
#32. His was not an easy face to read, and no one could have told that in the past half hour he had suffered the worst knock of his life. Except that he no longer whistled into the wind or talked to his irritable mare, there was nothing to show.
Winston Graham
#33. Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
W.C. Fields
#34. What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege.
Piers Anthony
#35. The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.
Robert McKee
#36. There is nothing in life except what one thinks of it.
Wallace Stevens
#37. No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
Jose Saramago
#38. It was difficult to define her beyond saying that she seemed to exist only as a hostess, not so much from any exaggerated instinct of hospitality as because she could not sustain life except in a crowd.
Edith Wharton
#39. In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!
Elvis Presley
#40. My mom just told me it's impossible to know what's going to happen in life. Except with breakfast, cause she eats the same thing every day.
Bob Saget
#41. I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
Nat Wolff
#42. You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.
William Shakespeare
#43. This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his life except for one crazy minute. The other never did anything honest in his life except for one crazy minute.
Preston Sturges
#44. The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
Malala Yousafzai
#45. It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
Malcolm X
#46. I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.
Cheryl Cole
#47. There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.
Sophie Swetchine
#48. I think I have broken the mould that actresses have to be extremely thin on screen. All those who are making my weight an issue just prove that people are jealous. These are people who have nothing to do in life except to stare at their computer screens and make comments on us.
Sonakshi Sinha
#49. There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind
Brian Tracy
#50. There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.
Jodi Picoult
#51. It was like that old show This Is Your Life, except this version was called This Is Why You Suck.
Danielle Paige
#53. I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
Edgar Allan Poe
#54. Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?
Christopher Hitchens
#55. I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.
Bon Scott
#56. I've been unsure about many things in my life except that I have always loved him. Every single minute of every single day that I have been on this earth, my heart has belonged to him.
Alison G. Bailey
#57. There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
#58. She didn't understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.
Liane Moriarty
#59. I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.
Giacomo Casanova
#60. I still don't know how to live my life except on my haunches at the feet of Jesus, eyes fixed on his face. Nothing else "works." No formula, no method makes me feel so fully human and alive as the radical act of living loved.
Sarah Bessey
#61. It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up in their own personal reality as to not see life, except in terms that add to or detract from their movie.
Frederick Lenz
#62. The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for when he plays a superhero, because the real Will Smith can't fly. He can only hover.
Kurt Fuller
#63. Things are going great in every part of my life except movies. That's okay. I've got a lot of other parts of my life. I've made 15 movies. You can see any one of my movies and it says the same thing.
John Waters
#64. Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone's purpose in life except yours.
Iyanla Vanzant
#65. [N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.
Orhan Pamuk
#66. I have friends who know everything there is to know about life except how to enjoy it
Darnell Lamont Walker
#67. Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the worst way to explain the mysteries of life, except for Creationism.
Roberto Quaglia
#69. It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That's when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.
Jean Rhys
#70. This was what was left of a human individual when you took away his home,his family, his friends, his city, his country,his world: a being without context, whose past had faded, whose future was bleak, an entity stripped of name, of meaning,of the whole of life except a temporarily beating heart.
Salman Rushdie
#71. So many things are unexplainable, and how is it that we know a life, except that we know our own, and it is brought into focus by the death of those around us. (less)
Colum McCann
#72. No other formula gives your baby a better start in life except that stuff that comes out of you for free.
Tina Fey
#73. Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.
Deepak Chopra
#74. Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air ... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
George Bernard Shaw
#75. Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#76. Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.
Franz Kafka
#77. I will never do anything in my entire life except preach the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#78. I love sports. The spirit and the fight you put to win a game. It is just like life except that life is not a game. There is no "retry" option in real life and you don't get to get a bonus life.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#79. I've never stolen anything in my life, except maybe a couple hearts here and there.
CM Punk
#81. Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old ...
- Wang Lung
Pearl S. Buck
#82. The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
Eddie Van Halen
#83. And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?
Benjamin Disraeli
#84. The suffragettes realized the power of getting arrested and going to prison and harassing politicians and making a nuisance of themselves. It got them a lot of attention. What they never did was set out to endanger human life except for sacrificing themselves.
Sarah Gavron
#85. The past is dead except for the life you give it
Myles Munroe
#86. When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified.
John Piper
#87. The good things in life are free, except for health care, and electricity.
Dov Davidoff
#88. I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.
Stephen Fry
#89. These memories, which are my life
for we possess nothing certainly except the past
were always with me.
Evelyn Waugh
#90. If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#91. Everything is allowed, except interrupting a manifestation of love.
Paulo Coelho
#92. The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.
Rajneesh
#93. I don't read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite's rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.
Roger Angell
#94. That's how life works. You know it when you know it.
They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless and homeless, looking for something, somewhere, anywhere here.
They're on a sixteen-line highway.
Driving west.
James Frey
#95. That's the weirdest thing about being cut off from life. Everything gets washed out or muted or recedes into the background except for other people's laughter. Other people's laughter gets very loud and jarring. It penetrates. It is a reminder that other people live.
Kerry Kletter
#96. Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#97. As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
Roberto Bolano
#98. The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, except indeed the mollusc life, a barnacle upon eternity.
Helen Waddell
#99. That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
Chuck Palahniuk
#100. No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.
Trevanian
