Top 36 Life Making Sense Quotes

#1. If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living and, and, you know, listening to all this good music. No, there was never in my mind any kind of sense of history, nothing.

Cosimo Matassa

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#2. I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it
that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.

Jane Goodall

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#3. I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

David Shrigley

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#4. Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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#5. The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

Katharine Hepburn

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#6. I suppose it's easier to see the way out of anything when you've found your way out of that maze. When you're stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it's difficult to make any sense of anything.

Cecelia Ahern

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#7. I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.

Lee Kuan Yew

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#8. Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Nadine Gordimer

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#9. I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

Mac DeMarco

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#10. Exercising your talents, passion, sense of judgment, and making a difference while doing something you love is the essence of life.

Garry Fitchett

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#11. We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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#12. It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

Paul Prudhomme

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#13. [Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as best we can; that being human is not a given something we have to strive for. That the reason we are here is to live and that this involves making many difficult judgements.

Roger Allam

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#14. The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex ... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.

Gustav Nossal

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#15. So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

Sean O'Casey

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#16. The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.

Ben Sollee

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#17. This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

R.A. Salvatore

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#18. I do not love thee less for what is done,
And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness
Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth
My love will have a sense of pity in it,
Making it less a worship than before.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#19. Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.

James Salter

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#20. What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

Robert Henri

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#21. Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn't matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.

Mariel Hemingway

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#22. Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erraticaly in all directions, that the chance of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme.

Terry Pratchett

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#23. Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.

Bruce L. Shelley

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#24. Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.

Richard B. Lee

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#25. Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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#26. The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens.

Karel Appel

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#27. What are the symptoms of being fucked-up?' 'I've got crap in my life that I wish I hadn't. And I'm not good at dealing with it. Am I making sense?

Graeme Simsion

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#28. Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.

Julian Fellowes

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#29. I always say one of my favorite things about making movies is finishing on that last day because I get to have my life back and let that go, and hopefully have a real sense of accomplishment at the end of it.

Mark Wahlberg

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#30. If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.

Jack Bruce

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#31. There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

Ashton Kutcher

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#32. Sometimes life just did things, he felt, and they didn't have to make sense. It helped when they did, and often the sense of a thing was just around a corner, but that didn't mean you ever got to see it.

Adam P. Knave

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#33. Only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet.

William Kennedy

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#34. Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Susan Meissner

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#35. Writing is making sense of life.

Nadine Gordimer

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#36. You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.

Mark Russell

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