Top 100 Quotes About What Is Life
#2. Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?
Rajneesh
#3. The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.
George Smoot
#4. After all is said and done, what is life anyway? Aren't we all going to die in the end? I believe life is only worth living if, while we are on this earth, we can do honorable things.
Ayse Kulin
#5. Oh, life, life!" Bastidas complained, sipping his drink. "What is life? A little flame at the tip of a candle, exposed to a strong wind.
Julio Ramon Ribeyro
#6. I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.
Tom Coburn
#7. What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
John Gunther
#8. People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems], I think, you find a certain beauty in the questioning, and that is then poetry.
Gwee Li Sui
#9. What is life but a dream and being able to put a little bit of it to work.
Hubert Crowell
#10. What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't?
Scott Watson
#13. What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#14. I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
Marian Keyes
#15. And what is life but a little row in a small boat, every moment leaving what we know, every stroke unable to see where we are headed?
Stephen P. Kiernan
#17. What is life if it's not in pursuit of the things we love?
Krista Ritchie
#18. What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?
Ameen Rihani
#21. What is life without some mystery in it and what is mystery without some life in it
Ankit
#22. Life without making progress is dead. What is life if you don't embrace new truths that scare you, meet people who intimidate you, and so on.
Assegid Habtewold
#24. From nowhere we came; into nowhere we go. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot Blackfoot Warrior Chief 1890
#25. What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#26. Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?
Frederick Lenz
#29. And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run
John Clare
#30. What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?
Christian Harrison
#33. What is life? a tale that is told;
What is life? a frenzy extreme,
A shadow of things that seem;
And the greatest good is but small,
That all life is a dream to all,
And that dreams themselves are a dream.
-Segismundo
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#35. What is life without a little risk?" -Sirius Black
J.K. Rowling
#36. But what is love, and what is life, if you do not let yourself live?
Primadonna Angela
#38. Only the one who does not know what is life may believe that it is beautiful and easy.
Albert Camus
#40. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. - CROWFOOT, CHIEF OF THE SIKSIKA FIRST NATION, 1890
Richard Louv
#41. What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
Robert Burton
#42. What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.
Vivian Amis
#43. Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
J.M. Coetzee
#44. The lesson is letting go, giving up and giving thanks for what is. Life unfolds in mysterious and beautiful ways; I have very little say in this process.
Judy Liautaud
#45. Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.
Leon Uris
#47. What is life if not laughter and love, caring and compassion, fresh bread and crisp radishes?
James Kavanaugh
#48. What is life for?' he asked rhetorically. 'It's a way to evolve thought. And what is thought for? It's a way to be aware, a stage between the physical and the spiritual. And time? it's a good way to keep things separated.
Raymond E. Feist
#49. What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.
Billy Cobham
#50. What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#51. There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?
Jeff Buckley
#52. What is life without a bit of excitement.
Amy Ewing
#53. To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?
Jose Rizal
#55. What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.
Jerry Garcia
#57. Those on the verge of leaving the church do not want to be told the answers. They want to be invited into the conversation of seeking what is life-giving, truthful, and consistent with the person and ministry of Jesus.
Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
#58. When I think of existence, I cannot help but wonder, "What is life, anyway?" Where do I fit in the grand scheme of life? What is the point of it, anyway? Is this a test - and if so, am I passing it?
C.J. Sinclair
#61. We must concern ourselves not with what is beyond life, or what is life, or what is the purpose of life, but rather with the understanding of this complex existence of everyday life, because that is the foundation upon which we must build.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#62. And what is life without the company of wine, women and good weather.
Avijeet Das
#63. For what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?
J. Maarten Troost
#65. O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
Ada Cambridge
#66. What is a goal, without a vison?
Who is a woman without a mission?
What is life without decisions?
Why live if not for transitions?
Renee' A. Lee
#67. To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life.
Rumi
#69. What is life," he asked the maiden, "without love? I would rather
have this one night with you than another thousand years.
Michele Bardsley
#70. What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?
Guillermo Del Toro
#72. And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have our being.
Edgar Cayce
#73. The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
Edmond Rostand
#74. What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course.
Frances Mayes
#75. A woman's love for a man should never be taken for granted. What is life without love?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?
Cynthia Voigt
#77. If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?
Bryant McGill
#78. What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
Umberto Eco
#79. What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#80. What is life when living without the Lifemaker?
Rachel
#81. What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born,
A helpless Babe, to greet the light
With a sharp wail, as if the morn
Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
To weep, to sleep, and weep again,
With sunny smiles between; and then?
John Godfrey Saxe
#83. Here am bound, the scorn of fate; 'Twas a dream that once a state I enjoyed of light and gladness. What is life? 'Tis but a madness. What is life? A thing that seems, A mirage that falsely gleams, Phantom joy, delusive rest, Since is life a dream at best, And even dreams themselves are dreams.
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#84. What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?
James Clavell
#85. But tell me," said Beauchamp, "what is life? Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?
Alexandre Dumas
#86. I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?
Joan Crawford
#87. What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege.
Piers Anthony
#88. He who commits his life to this son of man does not die, but he who does not commit his life to him destroys himself by not trusting to what is life itself Division (death) consists in this, that life came into the world, but men go away from that life.
Leo Tolstoy
#89. Never ever stop dreaming. You will make it big one day. What is life without our struggles? Our struggles give us insight and depth into life.
Avijeet Das
#90. Life ... by Marshall Mathers ... What is life ?
Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down ...
And everytime you think you gotten past it
It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground
Eminem
#92. But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on.
Bill Bryson
#93. Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.
Eric Chaisson
#94. How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#96. What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
Ernestine Rose
#97. If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
Sophie Kinsella
#98. Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
Ravi Zacharias
#99. May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?
David Gemmell
#100. What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
