Quotes with life-bearing

Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 4252.

• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

  Charlotte Brontë
  British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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• Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

  Morarji Desai
   
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• Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

  Stella Adler
  American actress and acting (1901 - 1992)
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• Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

  Sarah Bernhardt
  French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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• Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

  William Feather
  American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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• Life begins on the other side of despair.

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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• Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.

  Marcelene Cox
  American author
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• Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

  Søren Kierkegaard
  Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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• Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.

  Edna Ferber
  American writer (1885 - 1968)
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• Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

  The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 4

  Joan Didion
  American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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• Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

  Rollo May
  American psychologist
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• Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

  Socrates
  Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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• Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
  

  Charlie Chaplin
  British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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• Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

  Anton Chekhov
  Russian playwright and short story writer
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Subjects in these quotes:

• registering
• concessions
• pleasurable
• reciprocal
• philosophy
• backwards

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