Life Quotes

Collection - including uplifting life quotes and many short quotes about life.
This is to save you time searching books and the internet - here is a list of some great famous quotes for life; some hilarious life quotes and more serious life lessons quotes.

Here is our life quotes collection.

Hilarious life quotes

Choose amongst what we could call "living life to the fullest quotes" and "don't take life too seriously quotes". We love this one from Jack Handey:

"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it"

And from Carl Sandburg:

"Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep"

Live life to the fullest quotes

They come from all sorts of sources. Some of these have been in our individual collections for years; we always write down good things we find. These are a couple of our favorite little gems:

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can"
Danny Kaye

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once"
Lillian Dickson

More Life Quotes

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."
Richard Bach

"People living deeply have no fear of death."
Anais Nin

"Life is just one damned thing after another"
Elbert Hubbard

"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed"
Corita Kent

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
Dorothy Thompson

"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful."
HH the Dalai Lama

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
Elbert Hubbard

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Franklin P. Jones

"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn."
Louis Adamic

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of."
Benjamin Franklin

"Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow."
Cherralea Morgen

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Henry David Thoreau

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
Robert Frost

Love Life, Live Life

"Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key."
Alan Bennett

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
Albert Einstein

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die"
Amelia Burr

"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular."
Kathy Norris

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
Emily Dickinson

"I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
Bill Watterson

"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."
Quentin Crisp

"We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse."
Author Unknown

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer."
Jim Carrey

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can."
Cary Grant

"To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach."
Havelock Ellis

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go.""
Maya Angelou

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile"
Albert Einstein

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Mark Twain

"Life is just a chance to grow a soul"
A. Powell Davies

Use these Short Quotes About Life

We hope you have as much fun and inspiration reading these as we did - collecting them from books, the internet, speeches etc. We hope you find some beauties here to add to your 'collection' in the section on Life Quotes

Learn about Life Happiness from Mike Dooley

"It's through the pursuit of my goals and dreams that I learn my lessons and even greater secrets about life and myself. As far as fun and meaning go in my life today, by most standards I've been doing pretty well..." - Taken from Mike Dooley's bio at www.tut.com

I believe Mike Dooley is a true master when it comes to life and happiness.

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