Top 100 Life Is Only Quotes
#1. Look, life is only comprehensible through a thousand local gods ... spirits of certain trees, of certain curves of brick walls, of certain fish and chip shops if you like. And slate roofs, and frowns in people, and slouches ... I'd say to them, Worship all you can see, and more will appear ...
Peter Shaffer
#2. Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
Rick Riordan
#3. Life is only a dream and we are only the imagination of ourselves.
Bill Hicks
#4. We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
Jennifer Niven
#5. Life is only as colorful as the paintbox you choose to paint it with.
Gillian Duce
#6. What if?..
What if I am all to see?
What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?
What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday
And there is no better way?
What then?
Melody Carlson
#8. The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
#9. The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.
Akhenaton
#10. Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. Custom had dinned into his ears
H.P. Lovecraft
#11. No, life is only given to me once and I shall never have it again ... #YOLO!!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#13. Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
Therese Of Lisieux
#14. And, for the gods sake, don't waste the whole day working! Make time for a bit of adventure dear. This life is only so long.
Adrastus Rood
#15. What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#16. Life is only logical, and to think it's a gift is depressing.
Konrad
#17. The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.
Adolf Hitler
#18. Life is only precious if you wish it to be.' I look at it like the last bite of a wonderful meal - do you enjoy it, or does the knowledge that there is no more to follow make it so bitter that you would ruin the experience?
Michael J. Sullivan
#19. Every single mistake we make in life is only but a new experience added to that we already know".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#20. It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#21. She smiled. Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.
Ruth Ozeki
#22. Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
Franz Liszt
#23. Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration and that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and you are the imagination of yourself. Here's Tom with the weather ... !
Bill Hicks
#24. The present life is only the introductory part of our existence. It is that however which stamps a character on all that follows.
Joshua C. Breland
#25. Life is only a part of Death, not Death is a part of Life..
Junar Co Beadoy
#26. For life is only life when blessed with health.
Martial
#27. Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.
Philip K. Dick
#28. This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset; it encourages wishful thinking toward and elusive and likely non-existent afterlife while often enabling the believer to squander this life as somehow less important.
David G. McAfee
#29. Figuring out what to do with your life is only Half of the equation, the more important half is, whom you are doing it with
Sel
#30. Men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.
Geraldine Jewsbury
#31. There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
#32. If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.
Frederick Lenz
#33. Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.
Yasmin Mogahed
#34. Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream.
Ray Davies
#35. It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.
Robin Sharma
#36. This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come. No one reaches their potential in your world.
Wm. Paul Young
#37. My life is only half full
When I receive.
My heart is completely full
Only when I give.
Sri Chinmoy
#38. The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
Alfred Jarry
#39. I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.
David Gerrold
#40. Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#41. Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.
Patrick Ness
#42. Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.
Deborah Levy
#43. You are primal awareness. Life is only primal awareness. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are. You know moments in your life when a thought completely disappears into silence, but still you are.
Jean Klein
#44. Life is only fair for the Dead, who get what they want because they want nothing.
Isaac Marion
#45. Life is only worth-while through the eyes of a believer.
Ashley Smith
#46. But real life is only one kind of life - there is also the life of the imagination.
E.B. White
#47. It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
Sherwood Anderson
#48. Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
Guy Finley
#49. When I think of death, I know I have nothing to lose. Living life is only a gain.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#50. Life is only available in the present moment.
Nhat Hanh
#51. The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia Woolf
#52. My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.
John Updike
#53. Life is only beginning for you now ... since at last you're quite free and independent. And you never know what may be around the next bend in the road
L.M. Montgomery
#54. I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
Catherynne M Valente
#55. Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.
Bill Hicks
#56. To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.
P.B. Kerr
#57. It's all part of a plan." He said, and smiled. "Our reward isn't here on earth. Earth barely matters. It's just a practice, this life is only a passing place, a stopping point on our journey.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#58. The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.
Frances Moore Lappe
#59. Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
Jorge Luis Borges
#60. Now, we know that life is only a stage to play the fool upon as long as the part amuses us. There was one more convenience lacking to modern comfort; a decent, easy way to quit that stage; the back stairs to liberty; or, as I said this moment, Death's private door.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#61. Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won't stick out.
Djuna Barnes
#62. Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.
Daisaku Ikeda
#63. If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.
Peter Kreeft
#64. But the Spackle War was over a long time ago, wasn't it?"
"Thirteen years now."
"Thirteen years where you could have righted a wrong."
She finally looks at me. "Life is only that simple when you're young, my girl.
Patrick Ness
#66. I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.
Lucien Carr
#68. We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.
Jean Baptiste Massillon
#69. All life is only allegory and the real story is not here ...
Richard Flanagan
#70. The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to judge right from wrong, to value all life, is only possible through our ability to reason. Reason is what powers morality.
Terry Goodkind
#71. But of course we must never forget, Mrs. Pither, that there's a better world coming. This life is only a time of trial - just to strengthen us and teach us to be patient, so that we'll be ready for Heaven when the time comes.
George Orwell
#74. This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.
Jack Kornfield
#75. Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .
Aristotle.
#76. This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived. I have little doubt of our having pre-existed; and that also in the time of our pre-existence we were actively employed. So, therefore, I believe in our active employment in a future life, and I like the thought.
Charles George Gordon
#77. Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is,
Lily Collins
#79. My life has consisted of challenging authority, which I was taught as a young girl. Life is only noise between two abysmal silences. Silence before birth, silence after death.
Isabel Allende
#80. In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones. - PABLO NERUDA
Mark Nepo
#82. There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill Hicks
#83. The law of cause and effect gets clear to you, when you realize the eternal truth within you. The failure or success with life is only because of, getting away and coming closer to the natural process of life.
Roshan Sharma
#84. I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
Rafael Nadal
#85. Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.
Marcus Aurelius
#88. So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.
Robert Bloch
#89. My life is only important if i can help plenty of people
Bob Marley
#90. I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Nikki Giovanni
#92. Our love of life is only an old liaison of which we do not know how to rid ourselves. Its strength lies in its permanence. But death which severs it will cure us of the desire for immortality.
Marcel Proust
#93. Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.
Olivia Wilde
#94. Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily ... life is only ours on loan.
Sue Grafton
#95. My life nah important to me, but other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just for me and my own security then me no want it. My life is for people. That's way me is.
Bob Marley
#96. After all is said and done, what is life anyway? Aren't we all going to die in the end? I believe life is only worth living if, while we are on this earth, we can do honorable things.
Ayse Kulin
#97. Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.
Mina Loy
#98. Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.
Brian Tracy
#99. All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.
H.P. Lovecraft
#100. The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
