--- title: "27 Life Quotes By Gertrude Stein" description: "27 Life quotes by Gertrude Stein. Plus more from Gertrude Stein and more Life sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9b/gertrude-stein-667_feel_this-joy-you-feel-is-life-552496_552496.jpg" --- > [This joy you feel is life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/this-joy-you-feel-is-life/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9b/gertrude-stein-667_feel_this-joy-you-feel-is-life-552496_552496.jpg) > [There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-imagined-life-any-more/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/gertrude-stein-667_life_there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-ima_3149828.jpg) > [Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/every-day-is-a-renewal-every-morning-the-daily-miracle-this-joy-you/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ca/gertrude-stein-667_daily-miracles_every-day-is-a-renewal-every-morning-the_3048038.jpg) > [Whoever said money cant buy happiness didnt know where to shop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/whoever-said-money-cant-buy-happiness-didnt-know-where-to-shop/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed9/gertrude-stein-667_happiness_whoever-said-money-cant-buy-happiness-di_611826.jpg) > [“Love is the skillful audacity required to share an inner life”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/love-is-the-skillful-audacity-required-to-share-an-inner-life/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ed/gertrude-stein-667_audacity_love-is-the-skillful-audacity-required-t_2751778.jpg) > [There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-are-so-many-ways-of-earning-a-living-and-most-of-them-are/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/582/gertrude-stein-667_earning_there-are-so-many-ways-of-earning-a-livi_1104894.jpg) > [Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/just-as-everybody-has-the-vote-including-women-i-think-children/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a35/gertrude-stein-667_child_just-as-everybody-has-the-vote-including_5000.jpg) > [The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/the-subject-matter-of-art-is-life-life-as-it-actually-is-but-the/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f6/gertrude-stein-667_art_the-subject-matter-of-art-is-life-life-a_2286207.jpg) > [“I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-have-lived-half-of-my-life-in-paris-not-the-half-the-made-me-but/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/gertrude-stein-667_life_i-have-lived-half-of-my-life-in-paris-no_2076472.jpg) > [Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/anything-one-does-every-day-is-important-and-imposing-and-anywhere/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/735/gertrude-stein-667_beautiful_anything-one-does-every-day-is-important_321131.jpg) > [Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/repeating-is-the-whole-of-living-and-by-repeating-comes-understanding/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b87/gertrude-stein-667_art-of-living_repeating-is-the-whole-of-living-and-by_3223803.jpg) > [There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-pulse-so-sure-of-the-state-of-a-nation-as-its/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/607/gertrude-stein-667_art_there-is-no-pulse-so-sure-of-the-state-o_2804927.jpg) > [To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/to-know-what-one-knows-is-frightening-to-live-what-one-lives-is/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d30/gertrude-stein-667_frightened_to-know-what-one-knows-is-frightening-to_2674416.jpg) > [If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/if-the-communication-is-perfect-the-words-have-life-and-that-is-all/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be3/gertrude-stein-667_communication_if-the-communication-is-perfect-the-word_1622758.jpg) > [there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-are-many-ways-of-eating-for-some-eating-is-living-for-some/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e8/gertrude-stein-667_alive_there-are-many-ways-of-eating-for-some-e_2314689.jpg) > [The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/the-reason-why-all-of-us-naturally-began-to-live-in-france-is-because/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28b/gertrude-stein-667_believe_the-reason-why-all-of-us-naturally-began_3231408.jpg) > [The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/the-minute-you-or-anybody-else-knows-what-you-are-you-are-not-it-you/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/111/gertrude-stein-667_difficult_the-minute-you-or-anybody-else-knows-wha_1547689.jpg) > [Family living can go on existing. Very many are remembering this thing are remembering that family living living can go on existing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/family-living-can-go-on-existing-very-many-are-remembering-this-thing/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16c/gertrude-stein-667_certain_family-living-can-go-on-existing-very-ma_2316145.jpg) > [The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/the-composition-is-the-thing-seen-by-everyone-living-in-the-living/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/786/gertrude-stein-667_composing_the-composition-is-the-thing-seen-by-eve_1179211.jpg) > [“She says it is a good thing to have no sense of how it is done in the things that amuse you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/she-says-it-is-a-good-thing-to-have-no-sense-of-how-it-is-done-in-the/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/gertrude-stein-667_career_she-says-it-is-a-good-thing-to-have-no-s_2644538.jpg) > [... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-point-in-being-realistic-about-here-and-now-no-use-at-all/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63c/gertrude-stein-667_being-real_there-is-no-point-in-being-realistic-abo_1176729.jpg) > [The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/the-one-thing-that-everybody-wants-is-to-be-freenot-to-be-managed/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b75/gertrude-stein-667_controlled_the-one-thing-that-everybody-wants-is-to_1486924.jpg) > [“The one thing that everybody wants is to be free...not to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/the-one-thing-that-everybody-wants-is-to-be-free-not-to-be-managed/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1c/gertrude-stein-667_business_the-one-thing-that-everybody-wants-is-to_3063607.jpg) > [“It is a very strange feeling when one is loving a clock that is to every one of your class of living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/it-is-a-very-strange-feeling-when-one-is-loving-a-clock-that-is-to/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10f/gertrude-stein-667_books_it-is-a-very-strange-feeling-when-one-is_1670579.jpg) > [Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/disillusionment-in-living-is-finding-that-no-one-can-really-ever-be/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7a/gertrude-stein-667_disillusionment_disillusionment-in-living-is-finding-tha_1642654.jpg) > [War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/war-is-more-like-a-novel-than-it-is-like-real-life-and-that-is-its/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c90/gertrude-stein-667_books_war-is-more-like-a-novel-than-it-is-like_1693139.jpg) > [I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-simply-contend-that-the-middle-class-ideal-which-demands-that/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/782/gertrude-stein-667_affectionate_i-simply-contend-that-the-middle-class-i_146909.jpg) ## Other authors on Life - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 2,086 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-nishan-panwar-14.jpg) Nishan Panwar 1,901 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/nishan-panwar/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 1,045 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-ritu-ghatourey-5.jpg) Ritu Ghatourey 893 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/ritu-ghatourey/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 659 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/frederick-lenz/) - [Lailah Gifty Akita 630 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-anurag-prakash-ray-38.jpg) Anurag Prakash Ray 621 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/anurag-prakash-ray/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steve-maraboli-87325.jpg) Steve Maraboli 550 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/steve-maraboli/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-melchor-lim-61.jpg) Melchor Lim 538 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/melchor-lim/) - [Mehmet Murat ildan 452 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 432 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/henry-david-thoreau/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 430 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ## More by Gertrude Stein > [I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-certainly-do-care-for-you-jeff-campbell-less-than-you-are-always/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/americans-are-very-friendly-and-very-suspicious-that-is-what/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/just-as-everybody-has-the-vote-including-women-i-think-children/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [“When is there some discharge when. There never is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/when-is-there-some-discharge-when-there-never-is/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-such-thing-as-repetition-only-insistance/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-am-i-because-my-little-dog-knows-me-but-creatively-speaking-the/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/how-likely-are-definitions-to-be-pleasurable/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [ “What is the answer?" \[ I \[Alice B Toklas\] was silent \] In that case, what is the question?” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/what-is-the-answer-i-alice-b-toklas-was-silent-in-that-case-what-is/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/more-and-more-i-like-to-take-a-train-i-understand-why-the-french/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/adventure-is-making-the-distant-approach-nearer-but-romance-is-having/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [Forensics is eloquence and reduction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/forensics-is-eloquence-and-reduction/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/eating-and-sleeping-are-not-like-loving-and-breathing-washing-is-not/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-write-for-myself-and-strangers-the-strangers-dear-readers-are-an/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [“A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/a-bag-which-was-left-and-not-only-taken-but-turned-away-was-not-found/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) > [I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-don-t-envisage-collectivism-there-is-no-such-animal-it-is-always/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/gertrude-stein/#itemlist", "name": "27 Life Quotes By Gertrude Stein", "numberOfItems": 27, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "This joy you feel is life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gertrude Stein" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/this-joy-you-feel-is-life/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9b/gertrude-stein-667_feel_this-joy-you-feel-is-life-552496_552496.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9b/gertrude-stein-667_feel_this-joy-you-feel-is-life-552496_552496.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9b/gertrude-stein-667_feel_this-joy-you-feel-is-life-552496_552496.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“This joy you feel is life.” — Gertrude Stein", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gertrude Stein" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-imagined-life-any-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/gertrude-stein-667_life_there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-ima_3149828.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/gertrude-stein-667_life_there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-ima_3149828.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/gertrude-stein-667_life_there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-ima_3149828.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.” — Gertrude Stein", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. 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