Top 100 Quotes About Vita
#1. Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago [Without learning, life is but the image of death]
Dionysius Cato
#2. Nella vita: chi non risica, non rosica," he said finally, his voice quiet. "In life: nothing ventured, nothing gained. My mom used to tell us that. It's been a long time, but I can still hear her saying it.
J.M. Darhower
#3. The problem is you bring up the name Elizabeth Taylor, people think of jewelry; they think of husbands; the 'la dolce vita' lifestyle. I'm happy to have gotten to know her when I got to know her.
Firooz Zahedi
#4. I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home.
[Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#5. Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself. Omnis vita servitium est.
Hannah Arendt
#6. Talk of solitude (...). It is the last resort of the civilised: our souls are so creased and soured in meaning we can only unfold them when we are alone. (5/4/1927 - From a Letter to Vita Sackville-West)
Virginia Woolf
#7. From my father, Alfred: Senza memoria vita non esiste.
(which in Italian means, without memory life does not exist)
Raymond F. Vennare
#8. Ave Dolce Vita, Rex Regum! Hail Sweet Life, King of Kings! We love you and we believe in you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. The very life which we enjoy is short.
[Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
Sallust
#11. Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.
The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
Seneca The Younger
#12. Un momento con una donna capricciosa vale undici anni di vita noiosa.
A single moment with a fiery female is worth eleven years of a boring life.
Sarah MacLean
#13. Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.
Rachel Caine
#14. She had blue eyes, but his were BLUE. Not just one shade of blue, either, but a swirl of shades that reminded her of the stretch of ocean between Bella Vita Isle and Nassau where the turquoise waters fell into a deep, fathomless blue.
Emily March
#15. Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms.
Gwendoline Christie
#16. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial.
Rebecca Miller
#17. Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable.
Niall Ferguson
#18. The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.
Elliot W. Eisner
#20. Mors certa, vita incerta, as Mr. Sloat occasionally declared. Isidore, although he had heard the expression a number of times, retained only a dim notion as to its meaning. After all, if a chickenhead could fathom Latin he would cease to be a chickenhead.
Philip K. Dick
#21. Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
[Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
Plautus
#22. The team we had, the Hobie Vita-Pakt Super Surfer team, you know, the Hilton boys were on there, Conrad Hilton's grandkids, and they were really good. After being around those kids, I could ride a little. Do a 360, some kick-turns, stuff like that.
Hobart Alter
#23. They claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks.
Hilary Mantel
#24. VITA BREVIS
A lifetime
is more
than
sufficiently long
for people to get what there is of it
wrong.
Piet Hein
#25. In 1922 Woolf met the writer Vita Sackville-West, who was to join Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf as the most significant people in her life.
Jane Goldman
#26. For the past two years, life had been dark and ugly and empty of anything good. He'd come to Bella Vita seeking light, and while he'd made some progress on his own, it had taken Gabi bursting through his hedge and into his world for him to believe in possibilities again.
Emily March
#27. Because of this it has been possible for the play to be read, as it so often has been since the Romantic period, as a credo, an apologia pro vita sua (a justification of his own life), on the part of Shakespeare the dramatist.
William Shakespeare
#28. My favorite food is macaroni and cheese that my grandma makes. My favorite drink has to be Vita Coco coconut water.
Sloane Stephens
#29. A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.
Dennis Ritchie
#30. For the unlearned man knows not what it is to descend into himself, or to call himself to account, nor the pleasure of that suavissima vita, indies sentire se fieri meliorem.
Francis Bacon
#31. An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
[Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]
Tacitus
#32. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
Enza Vita
#35. I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves ...
Vita Sackville-West
#36. I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.
Vita Sackville-West
#37. I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
Vita Sackville-West
#40. Small pleasures must correct great tragedies, therefore of gardens in the midst of war I bold tell.
Vita Sackville-West
#41. Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville-West
#42. I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.
Vita Sackville-West
#43. All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
Vita Sackville-West
#45. I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
Vita Sackville-West
#47. The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.
Vita Sackville-West
#48. Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
Vita Sackville-West
#49. Don't mind being as miserable as you like with me - I have a great turn that way myself - [VW]
Vita Sackville-West
#50. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
Vita Sackville-West
#51. She wondered which wounds went deeper: the jagged wounds of reality, or the profound invisible bruises of the imagination?
Vita Sackville-West
#52. Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
Vita Sackville-West
#54. See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go ...
Vita Sackville-West
#55. And I'll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads - the won't stir by day, only by dark on the river.
Virginia Woolf
#56. All the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.
Vita Sackville-West
#58. Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen ...
Vita Sackville-West
#60. The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.
Vita Sackville-West
#61. Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
Vita Sackville-West
#62. For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
Vita Sackville-West
#64. Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
Vita Sackville-West
#67. Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
Vita Sackville-West
#68. Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
Vita Sackville-West
#69. To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
Vita Sackville-West
#70. Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
Vita Sackville-West
#71. The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
Vita Sackville-West
#72. My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme,
Vita Sackville-West
#73. Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
Vita Sackville-West
#75. Cristina, being something of a gardener, knew well enough that certain plants may appear to remain stationary for years while they are really making roots underground, only to break into surprising vigour overhead at a given moment.
Vita Sackville-West
#76. I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish. [VW]
Vita Sackville-West
#77. There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
Vita Sackville-West
#78. For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.
Vita Sackville-West
#79. I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got
Nikki Rowe
#80. Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
Vita Sackville-West
#81. Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.
Enza Vita
#82. He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like.
Nikki Rowe
#85. [On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
Vita Sackville-West
#86. For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ...
Vita Sackville-West
#87. Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.
Vita Sackville-West
#88. There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree
Vita Sackville-West
#91. It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
Vita Sackville-West
#92. You will get letters, very reasoned and illuminating, from many people; I cannot write you that sort of letter now, I can only tell you that I am shaken, which may seem to you useless and silly, but which is really a greater tribute than pages of calm appreciation ...
Vita Sackville-West
#94. But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ...
Vita Sackville-West
#97. I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
Vita Sackville-West
#98. It's more than ok to say no to the people and places that harm your peace.
Nikki Rowe
#100. It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
Vita Sackville-West
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