Life Often Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
— Madame de Stael
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In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially for…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You…
— Gilda Radner
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Life often feels like a great pile of obligations, frustrations, and disappointments. But the Lord is there, always the same, His arms still outstretched. When…
— Kathleen H. Hughes
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing…
— Stendhal
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I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next…
— Amy Winehouse
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The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
— Jeffrey Archer
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Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.
— Peter Paul Rubens
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UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades…
— Kofi Annan
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Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved…
— Susan Sontag
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Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'
— Jamie Lee Curtis
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I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the…
— Jerry Saltz
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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the…
— Ray Bradbury
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers…
— Oscar Wilde
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Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible…
— Matthew Quick
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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
— Stephen King
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Good writers touch life often.
— Ray Bradbury
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Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly...
— Matthew Quick
Who Wrote These Life Often Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 29 Life Often Quotes, led by these top contributors: