Life Quotes

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. ~Elinor Hoyt Wylie

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. -Thomas Jefferson

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes. -Luigi Pirandello

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -Josh Billings

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. -Peter De Vries

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

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. -Grandma Moses

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust – we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. -Albert Einstein

Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature’s grand design – do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things. -Morihei Ueshiba

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. -Abraham Cahan

Life is what happens to you while you