Top 100 Life Makes Quotes
#1. For when life makes it impossible for a man to pursue his dreams, he will connive to pursue them anyway.
Amor Towles
#3. So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
Allen Tate
#4. The brevity of his life makes the sky a dark lid against which he will forever crack his head, to fall back onto earth, where everything alive eats and can be eaten.
Milan Kundera
#5. Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#6. When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.
Paulo Coelho
#7. Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.
Mark Victor Hansen
#8. Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better
Charlie Munger
#10. don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. Clothilde
F Scott Fitzgerald
#11. But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank.
'Life makes its own corrections.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#12. Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
Gloria Estefan
#13. Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
Thomas A Kempis
#14. A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.
William Barclay
#15. Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.
Aaron Tveit
#16. I've had down periods in the past few years where I haven't been writing or working on music, and during that time something always felt like it was missing, but when I bring it back into the equation, everything in my life makes sense again. As corny as that sounds.
Keiynan Lonsdale
#17. Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.
Paul Murray
#18. If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.
Ludwig Von Mises
#19. Having a rather pessimistic outlook on life makes for the best philosophical discussions; distress is the only real reason to question something; comfort often leads to the inability to change.
Moryah DeMott
#20. That doesn't mean that I would destroy those works, or that I'm not proud of having come out the other side. Our past art makes our present art as much as our past life makes us who we are now. In the end, if the art stands up, that's what matters.
Kat Howard
#21. The worst part is, you never know what mistake you are going to make, when you will do so, and what effect it will have on your life. Makes you wish you were pshychic doesn't it?
Nasir
#22. Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.
Matthew Thomas
#23. Sometimes life makes us to kneel down dreadfully without knowing that man can make much better plans especially in the Land of Defeat to stand up again with an irresistible power!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.
Nicholas Lea
#26. For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.
Neville Goddard
#27. She didn't know yet that sometimes life makes different choices than you do. Stupid life.
Emily Bleeker
#28. Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
Elbert Hubbard
#29. Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King
#30. There is no need to choose. Why not live choicelessly? Why not live all that life makes available to you? Don't be a spiritualist and don't be a materialist: be both. Don't be a Zorba and don't be a Buddha; be both: Zorba the Buddha. Enjoy all that God has showered on you. That's
Osho
#31. Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
Saul Bellow
#32. Life makes itself with little heed for the appropriate ( p 136).
Eimear McBride
#33. The smaller you get - the smaller life makes you - the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.
Tullian Tchividjian
#35. What the Didache doesn't say is that the community should shun or excommunicate those who commit the forbidden sins. In fact, "correct some, pray for others, and some you should love more than your own life" makes plain that the worst sinners should be showered with the most love.
Tony Jones
#36. Words have to make sense; facts don't. That life makes no sense is the most beautiful fact of all.
Marty Rubin
#37. My pictures are about a search for a moment - a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense.
Gregory Crewdson
#38. No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.
Lisa Kleypas
#39. We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
Douglas Coupland
#40. Life makes two promises, one, it promises to be good, and two, it promises to be bad. Cherish the good and be strong during the bad.
Meena Sarine
#41. History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.
Louis D. Brandeis
#42. See, Mary, how a good, innocent life makes friends all around. Confound it! I could make a good lesson out of it if I were a parson; but, as it is, I can't get a tail to my sentences - only I'm sure you feel what I want to say.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#43. Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.
Susy Clemens
#44. The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.
John Updike
#45. I watch, and wait. And mourn, for what I must now do to save Jessamine's life makes me unworthy of her love. Whether she lives or dies, I know I have lost her.
I have lost her, forever.
Maryrose Wood
#46. The "virtue hypothesis" claims that living a virtuous life makes you happier.
Anonymous
#48. Devotion to something doesn't make you an expert on life; Life makes you an expert on life.
Jami Attenberg
#49. At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
Lauren Groff
#50. The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.
Bertrand Russell
#51. Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Life makes beggars out of those who have joyful hearts, taxing the living with hardship and tribulation, but the charity of companionship, the currency of shared and unmitigated love, alleviates all disconsolation.
Michelle Franklin
#53. University makes you knowledgeable;
the university of life makes you wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#54. You're getting like an attitude. What you get put through for just wanting something more out of life. Makes you vulnerable. Inside, that tug of desperation, trying not to be excited, maybe this is it, and it's usually freaks and you want to shout I'm not like you.
Sandra Newman
#55. I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human.
Rachael Ray
#56. The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
Andre Maurois
#57. Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
Mark Strand
#58. Sticking to old and narrow views of life makes us look foolish in God
Sunday Adelaja
#59. So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.
Kristen Heitzmann
#60. Life makes concessions for no one; it's up to each of us to learn from our experiences; laugh; cry; scream; shout; do whatever it takes to let it out; the important thing is to get it out ... move on ... and live life ... life waits for no one either.
Mary Surratt
#61. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
Oscar Wilde
#62. Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.
Thomas A Kempis
#64. It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
Henry James
#65. Believe with all your heart that how you live your life makes a difference
Colin Beavan
#66. I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#67. Perhaps the messiness of life makes a nonsense of morality and the simplistic notions of right and wrong upon which 'the law' was founded.
Robert Partridge
#68. When he first stepped out of the car and walked towards the door where I stood waiting, I saw a man I liked. In his writing he is flamboyant, virile, animal, magnificent. He's a man whom life makes drunk, I thought. He is like me.
Anais Nin
#69. Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense ... It's insanity by definition.
Jo Beverley
#70. Experiencing life makes you a better writer, and writing enhances your experience of life.
K. M. Bozarth
#71. I'm working on a new problem: Find the value for N such that N plus everything else in your life makes you feel all right. What would N equal? Solve for N.
Peter Cameron
#72. Possibility of enjoying life makes death feel terrible.
Santosh Kalwar
#73. Everything makes sense when I'm with you, Tess. My life makes sense, after so many years of running scared in the dark. You are the light, the reason I live. I'm bonded to you deep, woman. For me, there will never be another.
Lara Adrian
#74. Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#75. Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
Bertrand Russell
#76. When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.
Beth Orton
#77. The thing is, I like rules. They make me feel safe. The predictability of my boring life makes everything make sense. I guess that makes me a freak but I'm okay with that. You get to a certain point and you just realize there's no use in trying to pretend you're normal.
Amy Reed
#78. Everything about me and him and life makes so much sense when we're together like this.He makes me feel more beautiful.More important.More loved.I feel more everything
Colleen Hoover
#79. You talk to me of choices?' said Reinhardt. 'I only know that the choices life makes you take strip away the person we wanted to be. Builds us up into something we never wanted. Until you look back on life, and you see that the track of your life is a scar that hides what might have been.
Luke McCallin
#80. If you don't make a choice, life makes it for you and then you're stuck with what it decides. Take control of your destiny so that doesn't happen
Stewart Stafford
#81. Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough,
Larry McMurtry
#83. Woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.
Emma Goldman
#84. I have to pause the video while I corral the dogs in the other room. They howl in protest, and I tell them they are harshing my mellow and Yogi Beef Jerky's going to be pissed.
Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pie is Not The Answer
Jen Lancaster
#85. Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, it's our own expectations that crush us.
from Skippy Dies
Paul Murray
#87. Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza; in the end life makes window watchers of us all
Nicole Krauss
#88. Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. ...life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.
Edith Wharton
#90. The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
Charles Baudelaire
#92. The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.
Judd Apatow
#93. My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together.
Kiki Smith
#94. Where hard life makes some maudlin to the point of weeping at mere memory, it grants others a curious immunity to suffering. Like the slaves who work the charcoal pits, their skin grows hardened to the pinch of fire and coals, insensible to burning things.
R. Scott Bakker
#95. I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.
Charlotte Bronte
#96. It's about life, and how cruel it can sometimes be.
How unfair life is.
All of us have a hand in it.
We do what we have to do, take what we have to take, and sometimes we hurt people we swear we won't hurt, but we do, because life makes us.
J.M. Darhower
#97. The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the Kingdom of God within us; gives us pure lips, and a pure heart with which to glorify his holy name
Edith Stein
#98. Life makes no sense if you have to tolerate endless lies. I will never accept this system, which is built on lies, i will not stop my fight against this junta.
Alexei Navalny
#99. The life spent in doing what you love is a different life indeed from putting yourself out for hire to the highest bidder. The only way you can say it makes no difference is to say life makes no difference.
Laurence Boldt
#100. Frank keeps massaging his gun, and something about the motion - gentle, almost, like he's willing it to life - makes me feel sick.
Lauren Oliver
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