Best True Life Quotations

116 True Life quotes by 102 unique authors

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about. — Chuck Palahniuk
Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn’t… — Tao Lin
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,… — Mary Oliver
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. — Oscar Wilde
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. — Aristotle
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. — Plutarch
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. — Don DeLillo
All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't… — Amy Carmichael
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The… — William Boyd
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private… — Theodor Adorno
True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part… — Carl Jung
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful… — Thomas Merton
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look… — James Joyce
It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny — Paulo Coelho
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of… — George Orwell
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of… — George Orwell
Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of one’s life. True… — Spencer W. Kimball
You can't lead a true life without suffering — Mahatma Gandhi
There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you… — Anne Tyler
True life is elsewhere — Arthur Rimbaud
To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus… — Nhat Hanh
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. — Salvador Dali
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing… — Frank Herbert

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