Top 41 Sum Up Life Quotes
#1. There is no way to clearly capture or sum up life ... when fully lived.
Jill Telford
#2. Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.
Bridgit Mendler
#3. What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.
Alan Bennett
#4. I worked around cattle all my life and I guess I learned all there is to know about it, and I think I can sum it all up in one thing: You can't drink coffee on a running horse.
Sam Brenner
#5. If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?
Eyedea
#6. Life's the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. Addition on top of addition. They pile up and pile up until the cost of keeping up appearances is too high and the weight is just too much. Then: collapse.
Lauren Oliver
#7. No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that people like us hang on our wall and talk about long after their death. That the sum is greater than one part. That maybe one incident does not a life make.
Charles Martin
#8. In three simple words I can sum up all I have learned from life, Life Goes On.
Robert Frost
#9. Life is like a game of chess ... there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move ... where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves ... but first you have to make some kind of move.
Mort Walker
#10. Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy.
In the end, all you get is a few words.
Scott Nicholson
#11. I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.
Robert Vaughn
#12. No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.
D.L. Moody
#13. The last thought on your mind before you sleep is like a mirror showing you the reflection of who you are! No matter what you pretend to be all-day long, that one last thought is enough to sum up your entire life.
Mehek Bassi
#14. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
#15. It seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
Zora Neale Hurston
#16. I'm sure it's very obvious ... how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason ... it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.
Vincent Bugliosi
#17. Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.
Brian Tracy
#18. It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.
Carlos Machado
#19. I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.
Doug E. Fresh
#21. Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
Vita Sackville-West
#22. I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.
Claire Tomalin
#23. How shall I sum up my life?
I think I've been particularly lucky.
Audrey Hepburn
#24. For my part, life is so many things I don't care what it is. It's not my affair to sum it up. Just now it's a cup of tea. This morning it was wormwood and gall. Hand me the sugar.
D.H. Lawrence
#25. Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single day. I read fast, so I'm hoovering up lives at a ferocious pace, six or seven or eight in a week. I particularly love autobiographies: I can eat a whole person by sundown.
Caitlin Moran
#26. Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,
a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
James Russell Lowell
#27. But Lyric isn't sexy. She's fun, ridiculously happy, effortlessly beautiful, life-saving, and mind-blowing amazing. Sexy doesn't even begin to sum her up.
Jessica Sorensen
#28. Life is a sum made up of small parts, Kacie. Some are good; some are bad. You and the girls are definitely one of the good. The best good there is and I'll fight like hell to keep you here.
Beth Ehemann
#29. For all its complexity, however, astrology remains fundamentally simple. It offers a time-honored system of symbols that sum up key aspects of human life while providing profound insights and practical guidance.
Anne M. Nordhaus-Bike
#30. Little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.
Julia McNair Wright
#31. My life up until my illness could be understood as the linear sum of my choices. As in most modern narratives, a character's fate depended on human actions, his and others.
Paul Kalanithi
#32. In three words I can sum up the purpose of life: living, loving, and giving.
Debasish Mridha
#33. That idea of escapism ... these words could sum up my life.
Ella Maillart
#34. If you could sum up your life in one sentence, then you didn't live much of a life.
Carroll Bryant
#35. Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
Al Pacino
#36. In the end things must be as they are and have always been
the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays.
Paulo Coelho
#38. Live every single day doing something relevant; single days sum up to make great ages!
Israelmore Ayivor
#39. To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them. Being aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.
Albert Camus
#40. To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.
Brunello Cucinelli
#41. I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
