Top 100 Life Was Quotes
#1. Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I'd found my happiness.
Abbi Glines
#2. I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
Henry Miller
#3. I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time with TOMS.
Blake Mycoskie
#4. To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut
Peter Gabriel
#5. My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
Juliana Hatfield
#6. The third part of my life was where I was told the meaning of my life. One knows the weight of a thing when it is strong enough to bear its own meaning, to hear its own truth told to it, and yet to remain.
Jesse Ball
#7. IF LIFE WAS A THING THAT MONEY COULD BUY .....THE RICH WOULD LIVE AND THE POOR WOULD DIE.
John H. Sibley
#8. One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
Wayne Dyer
#9. How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat.
Sharon Kay Penman
#10. Life was good then, I though, as I started to cry. Not so much because I missed the good times, although I did. It was more that I knew I was turning into one of those girls who, upon looking at high school photos, feels wistful.
Emily Giffin
#11. But maybe life was like that: it held your death, waiting, and you had no choice but to walk toward it if you wanted a life.
Michelle West
#12. Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.
Marge Piercy
#13. The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.
Carl Jung
#14. Sometimes it seemed like the whole point of life was not to die the same death as your father.
Christopher Bollen
#15. Prior to the Industrial Age and during the long Agri-cultural Age life was a matter of survival and the concept of 'happiness' was superfluous, but with the industrial age came 'leisure time' and thus happiness was something one had 'time' to pursue".
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#16. Time they say is the best healer. Sad, but not true. With time, pain becomes you and you become pain. One forgets what life was without the pain.
Jayant Swamy
#17. The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
Anthony Shadid
#18. I never felt that my life was not complete without a child. I don't know if that, as a younger man, I'd have had full appreciation for it.
Kyle MacLachlan
#19. With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know.
Hunter S. Thompson
#20. Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
Sue Grafton
#21. Life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.
Jerome K. Jerome
#22. More than anything in life, she wishes she'd let him. That she'd smiled for the camera. That she'd said yes. Life was gone before you knew it;how foolish she'd been to refuse any of it.
Jennifer Haigh
#23. Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.
Oswald Chambers
#24. I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
Felix Dennis
#25. He only allowed himself a quick glance at her, knowing as soon as he saw her that she was the kind of girl who could make you think your life was not complete unless she was in it.
Adi Alsaid
#26. With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together.
Alan Dean Foster
#27. As long as the sun rose each day, as long as they could behold it, there life was secure.
Margaret George
#28. The high point of your life was when you knocked me down
Nancy Farmer
#29. All life was lived within the close proximity of tragedy.
Fran Seen
#30. Thank you, Lord, I was thinking, as we went deeper and deeper into the earth, because I was a lost sheep, and you brought me back. Because my life was dead, and you revived it. Because love wasn't alive in my heart, and you gave me back that gift.
Paulo Coelho
#31. I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
Lev Grossman
#32. There wasn't a rhyme or reason to the universe and those who occupied it. We were here. Some us for long durations and some of us for not so long, but the one thing we humans could depend on from life was pain.
Nicole Williams
#33. Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.
Fran Lebowitz
#35. Each morning she reminded herself that life was a gift, something she'd learned from Pops. Each day was a present to be opened and relished. So today she'd cherish the gift.
Heather Burch
#36. My life was worth nothing except the books I read,
Rufi Thorpe
#37. Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.
Jodi Picoult
#38. Because life was collective, it was intensely sociable and dependent on etiquette, hence the emphasis on courteous conduct and clean fingernails.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#40. My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.
Don Rickles
#41. Life was about making choices. Making mistakes was how you learnt.
Poppy Inkwell
#42. I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.
Don McLean
#43. The boy who initiated me into smack, who I will call Tim, was at that time eighteen years old, and came from Castlemilk. His life was a helter-skelter ride of drug-fuelled binges.
Stephen Richards
#44. My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
Rafael Palmeiro
#45. The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please, she was asking him to agree that her life was not a failure.
Richard Yates
#46. Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn't, and then you lived with the choice you made.
Nicholas Sparks
#47. None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.
Gloria Gaynor
#48. Mina's own life was already a reality show; why would she want to watch someone else's?
Chanda Hahn
#49. Life was brutal for her. She hated the heat and the dust - the lack of friendship and lack of respect from other women
who knew she was a Christian. She hated the monster my father had become.
Brian Arthur Levene
#50. As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled ... God still had plans for him.
Karen Kingsbury
#51. Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.
Nolan Bushnell
#52. In the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.
Doris Day
#53. To one visitor Alexandrian life was just one continuous revel, not a sweet or gentle revel either, but savage and harsh, a revel of dancers, whistlers, and murderers all combined.
Stacy Schiff
#54. Louis Creed came to believe that the last really happy day of his life was March 24, 1984.
Stephen King
#55. This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
Richard Baxter
#56. Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.
Jennifer Capriati
#57. The experience of seeing differences of dogma made moot in practice by the bonds of family affection and neighborly respect was formative for him. It seemed to leave him with a lasting sense that life was more complicated in practice than in theory - and that this was a good thing.
Yuval Levin
#58. Life was too short, no matter how long you lived.
-Ehlena's thoughts
J.R. Ward
#59. I felt like Life was a great show. It was really well-written.
Donal Logue
#60. Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.
Sylvia Plath
#61. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices.
Neil Gaiman
#62. Samuel McDermott or not, I was Ian McDermott, and the way I saw life was the way I'd live life.
Michael Harmon
#63. I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members.
Greg Boyle
#64. I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.
Fernando Torres
#65. Life was a revolving mystery, sometimes terrifying, sometimes maddening. But always provocative. Interesting. And although its meaning seemed beyond my grasp, it never seemed meaningless.
Christina Meldrum
#66. I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.
Assata Shakur
#67. It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.
Hermann Hesse
#68. I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
Jack Kerouac
#69. For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.
Hugh Hefner
#70. I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt.
John Elkann
#72. It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
Vera Farmiga
#73. In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.
Maurice Allais
#74. Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.
Whitey Ford
#75. They had something, that generation, he thought. They didn't doubt themselves. They knew what life was, and where they belonged in it. Not like us.
Helen Dunmore
#76. Life was for living, so why as I wasting?
Amber Fae
#77. She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.
Brian Andreas
#78. Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.
Robert Payne
#79. He'd learned a long time ago that when the woman in his life was behaving strangely, his best bet was to take his clothes off.
Tiffany Reisz
#80. Before I knew escape, life was something to be endured, passively. Now I hunger for it.
Kristin Halbrook
#81. Life was just a collection of small decisions
Kiera Cass
#82. Then, you were always captivated by self-sacrifice. However admirable, your eagerness to give your life over to another person may have been due in some measure to the fact that when your life was wholly in your lap you didn't know what to do with it. Self-sacrifice was an easy way out.
Lionel Shriver
#83. If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year would be a new series.
Elizabeth Duivenvoorde
#84. And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' - 'Joy of Life
Emile Zola
#85. Life was invented for kids. But then we all grow up, and society imposes filters that block the joy of silliness and sponging up pointless little things that make childhood the magic time for which it is widely known.
Tim Dorsey
#86. My life was nothing but misery at this place and now people come along ruining my death!
J.K. Rowling
#87. After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.
John Polkinghorne
#88. I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
Ja Rule
#89. When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
Jenna McCarthy
#90. Microsoft had made it clear that the only way to preserve your station in Valley life was to create a monopoly. If you created a monopoly, you were at least partially exempt from the ordinary rapid cycle of creation and destruction.
Michael Lewis
#91. One of the worst days of my life was telling Dick Ebersol I was going to TNT.
Charles Barkley
#92. Down to Egypt. Just a few hours ago Joseph's life was looking up.
Max Lucado
#93. So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.
Matthew Thomas
#94. I considered the wonder of the things that befell me, convinced that my life was the best omelet you could make with a chainsaw.
Panama
Thomas McGuane
#95. Jill had three basic statements about life,
1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.
2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
3. No one ever said that life was fair.
Nicholas Sparks
#96. One of the greatest days of my life was when I came to understand that other people's approval and my happiness were not related.
Ronda Rousey
#97. This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.
James Franco
#98. Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing.
Jack London
#99. Life was absurd, she thought, bouncing her up and down as if she were a rubber ball. She longed to lose height and roll away into a corner and be forgotten.
Beryl Bainbridge
#100. Life was running,
running after a mirage-like desires.
I met him, by chance,
resting for a night
on a bank of Time.
observed him like a
seer does.
pinched to awaken.
Suman Pokhrel
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