Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
-Hans Christian Anderson
Quotations
Life
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
It is a good practice to set apart at least one day in a year for the remembrance of one’s near and dear relatives, friends and learned people that are no more in keeping with our traditions; giving a new orientation to and infusing new life into practices that have become lifeless and meaningless to many.
-Scriptures "The Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism"
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
What we call life is only talk of nature.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
-Virginia Woolf
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
