Life - Quotes

Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern. - Henry Ward Beecher

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon. - H.P Lovecraft

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. - Jerome K. Jerome

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things. - Bentley Little

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record. - Amos Bronson Alcott

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others. - Simone de Beauvoir

Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward, grinding life down from its mark. - Gerald Massey

The fine art of Life is to make another Soul vibrate with a song of joy. - Edwin Leibfreed

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down. - Joe Biden

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful. - Tomothy Leary

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction. - Jerome K. Jerome

The best life is that which makes the best of life. - Ivan Panin

More on Life Here, and the book The Mystery of Life - a collection of quotes on and pertaining to life.