Top 100 Life Signs Quotes
#1. I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
Annie Dillard
#2. Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.
Walker Percy
#3. Signs are my food, drink are my tears; Clinking of fetters such music would crave; Stink and close air, away my life wears Innocency is all the hope I have. - Sir Thomas Wyatt
David Johnson
#5. Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,
I shun all signs of anchorage, because
The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.
Claude McKay
#6. There were many ways down Mount Fuji, according to my guidebook, but only one way up. Life lesson in that, I thought. Signs
Phil Knight
#7. But Father Time is real. And, in truth, he cannot age. Beneath the unruly beard and cascading hair - signs of life, not death - his body is lean, his skin unwrinkled, immune to the very thing he lords over.
Mitch Albom
#8. Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.
Mason Cooley
#9. If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there's more to what's written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don't see.
Sarah Addison Allen
#10. Even if we have ourselves so fully convinced that we are on the right track because we desperately want the specific direction we have chosen to be the correct one, if the universe disagrees with our choices, it will not be shy in telling us so.
Miya Yamanouchi
#11. We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.
Bob Dylan
#12. Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley
#13. Our street corners keep secrets, and our road signs only suggest,
never deciding for us, never knowing if the destination to which they lead is where we truely belong.
Alex Gaskarth
#14. Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
Walker Percy
#15. I am standing here in the shed, and I'm waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out ofthe dirt. I don't know if it's too early to look for signs of life or if, this time, winter has claimed my family for good.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. Georges Claude made a fortune from his neon signs, but lost most of it in the 1930s with hair brained schemes to make electricity using the temperature difference between the top of the ocean and its icy depths. He almost ended his career imprisoned for life.
Bill Hammack
#17. And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
Albert Camus
#18. In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.
Jonathan Raban
#19. Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.
Maureen Johnson
#20. All my life, I should not have worried so much about looking foolish; I see that now. Signs matter. And all waves are dangerous, especially the ones you refuse to see coming.
Suzanne Finnamore
#22. Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.
Deborah Needleman
#23. It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.
Audre Lorde
#24. Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this, said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.
J.K. Rowling
#25. Innards came out crossed and complex, like a tumble of plus and minus signs--the equation of human life.
M.P. Johnson
#26. Life is so full of portents and signs and symbols that it's a wonder not everyone is a writer.
Susan Juby
#27. There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling to part of life that have died for us.
Joan D. Chittister
#28. Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.
Henri Nouwen
#29. Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.
Paulo Coelho
#30. Death is like that, it blinks, we blink; not always able to see the Stop signs, hiding behind trees in the corner of the roads.
Anthony Liccione
#31. How can I tell the signals and the signs
By which one heart another heart divines?
How can I tell the many thousand ways
By which it keeps the secret it betrays?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#32. The backcountry signs say stuff like BEYOND THIS POINT IS A HIGH RISK AREA, WHICH HAS MANY HAZARDS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AVALANCHES, CLIFFS, AND HIDDEN OBSTACLES, YOU MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF YOUR RESCUE and I think, um, no thanks. I choose life.
Cynthia Hand
#33. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
Alex Garland
#34. The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.
Mason Cooley
#35. One of the first signs that you're beginning to develop boundaries is a sense of resentment, frustration, or anger at the subtle and not-so-subtle violations in your life. Just as radar signals the approach of a foreign missile, your anger can alert you to boundary violations in your life.
Henry Cloud
#36. Is there something? Is there anything? Is there any evidence of something? Any signs that there's more to life that the sum of its subatomic particles - some larger purpose, some deeper meaning, maybe even something that would qualify as "divine" in some sense of the word?
Robert Wright
#37. Every GI signs a blank check, payable to the United States, drawn in an amount up to and including his life.
G.E. Nolly
#39. These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.
William Shakespeare
#40. This then will be the shape and the feel of the world: an abandoned shell, signs of old life, curious animals wandering in and out of ruins, the wilderness crowding in, overtaking all human structures and human things.
Ben H. Winters
#41. When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.
Peter Diamandis
#42. The funny thing about decisions based on signs or gut or visions is that they're usually nothing but noble outs. Just another way to sabotage yourself and keep your bigger life at bay.
Jackson Galaxy
#43. Don't ever settle for something short of amazing in whatever you do in your life - there are a myriad of paths and choices to be made. Seek out the signs that speak to your heart and follow them. Then rely on God to protect you the rest of the journey.
Sieni A.M.
#44. On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now Bob Dole's new tax plan will rate a footnote in the history books and this may have a whole chapter in itself.
Richard E. Berendzen
#45. In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a matter of reading the inscription He wrote for you.
Paulo Coelho
#46. Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!
Sarah Harmer
#47. Since the church life is the proper life, it brings in God's blessing. Peace, joy, love, sympathy, kindness, normal living - all are signs of such a blessing of life which comes by the experience of Christ through the cross.
Witness Lee
#48. If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.
Brian MacLearn
#49. Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.
Ken Wilber
#50. You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#51. As we embrace our passions and delve into the mystery of life, we unite with the majestic complexity of nature; and if we follow the signs, this can help us understand who we really are.
Sebastian Pole
#52. We have to get used to the idea that at the most important crossroads in our life there are no signs.
Ernest Hemingway,
#53. Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality
all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.
Nelson Mandela
#54. If you have the understanding to first notice the signs, continue with the courage to follow them.
Nikki Rowe
#55. We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.
David Suzuki
#56. Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back ... I'm telling you.
Matthew Quick
#57. Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.
Sarah Dessen
#58. Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.
Oscar Wilde
#59. Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
Saint Ignatius
#60. Our bodies are our vehicles of life. They are ours to take care of. If we aren't taking care of them, they show signs of stress and wear. If we are taking care of our bodies, they show signs of healing and resiliency. A healthy body is an inspired body, and an inspired body is a happy body.
Elaina Marie
#61. The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.
Daniel Woodrell
#62. Mental health professionals have said for a long time that individuals cannot adapt well to too many life changes at once. If you suffer a loss in the family, change jobs, and move all within a short time, the chances are your own internal stability may break down, or show signs of serious strain.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#63. A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life.
Doug Larson
#64. Never abandon your dreams. Follow the signs.
Paulo Coelho
#65. Be careful of living your life based only on faith and signs, or you might find yourself standing in a South American jungle holding a glass of Kool-aid. Commonsense is the foundation of any good testimony.
Shannon L. Alder
#66. Then, a life was ending. Here, one was about to begin. I didn't believe in signs. But it was hard to ignore the fact that someone, somewhere, might have wanted me to go through this again and see there was another outcome.
Sarah Dessen
#67. All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.
Albert Schweitzer
#68. Wrapping his arm around Kai, pulling the man he loved close to him, all Jeremy could think was... it's worth it.
Melanie Hansen
#69. Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
David Frum
#70. As Christians, we are not to beg for signs and wonders but, to command them all the time and not some of the time.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#71. In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.
John Van Hamersveld
#72. I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.
Ivo Andric
#73. Everything is connected. We see the signs every moment. There are miracles waiting to happen!
Avijeet Das
#74. Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.
Abraham Verghese
#75. This life is full of signs, many of which find their way to you exactly when you need them most.
Christy Hall
#76. Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that life has reserved for him.
Paulo Coelho
#77. Anger and bitterness are two noticeable signs of being focused on self and not trusting God's sovereignty in your life. When you believe that God causes all things to work together for good to those who belong to Him and love Him, you can respond to trials with joy instead of anger or bitterness.
John C. Broger
#78. While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.
Eugene J. Martin
#79. When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope.
Henri Nouwen
#80. Life is beautiful, life is good. There should be signs and posters everywhere.
Marty Rubin
#81. What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.
Ivo Andric
#82. Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#83. But I guess what I would want to leave each of you with finally -- tender some Evidence of, against a life's worth of signs to the contrary -- comes down simply to this: You are infinite. I see you. You are not alone.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#84. Through experience, he had learnt to pick up all of the unmistakable signs of vulnerability in a woman, everything that pointed to her being an easy prey.
Alice Walsh
#85. One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!
A.B. Simpson
#86. When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and sterile and numb, we're particularly receptive to signs.
Kate Bolick
#87. Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#88. Show me where there is life in the desert. Only those who can see such signs of life are able to find treasure.
Paulo Coelho
#89. Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you
Bob Dylan
#90. Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
Gretchen Rubin
#91. It was strange watching somebody sleep. It felt intrusive, as if you had caught them at their most defenseless. And as you watched them, motionless, you couldn't help but wonder -if only for a moment- whether they had died, and watch furiously for signs of life
Justin Somper
#92. One of the consequences of sin is that it makes the sinner pity himself instead of causing him to turn to God. One of the first signs of new life is that the individual takes sides with God against himself.
Donald Grey Barnhouse
#93. Highways are nice and paved, and they have signs telling you which way to go. Life isn't like that at all.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#94. If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.
Bob Ross
#95. When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.
Aldous Huxley
#96. It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality ... We've only one life to live.
Agatha Christie
#97. Some people believe that holding on and hanging there are signs of strength, but there are times in life when it takes much more strength just to let go.
Ann Landers
#98. Human beings have evolved so fast, relative to other life on Earth, and this has never been properly explained, but now there are signs that the human race has burned out in evolutionary terms, and perhaps it is our time to devolve.
Robert Black
#99. Life is not meant to be an interstate highway. It's a winding mountain road with hills and dips, stop signs and school zones. Let friends and family be the data for your GPS satellite feed, and never forget that sometimes an unexpected detour leads to a hidden miracle.
Emily March
#100. One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.
Oswald Spengler
