Life Quotes

"Habit is the great guide of life" "The only thing we can depend on from life is that it will surprise us." "The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth." "The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life." "We're all stories, in the end." "Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first—the story of our quest for sexual love. The second—the story of our quest for a love affair with the world." "The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist. It is by the ideal that we live." "I wonder if life is ever lived well by anybody, if there is any one thing that might be called a success—except survival." "I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering 'bout the big things and asking 'bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love." "No arts no letters no society and which is worst of all continual fear and danger of violent death and the life of man solitary poor nasty brutish and short" "There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it" "Writing is a dog’s life but the only life worth living" "Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale." "Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must " "Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside" "Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always" "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." "The world is an emanation of the Beloved's beauty, and life a mirror reflecting it" "Alas, how fleeting and enfeebled life passes from the world" "The caravan of life shall always pass; do not breathe a word, let it pass"