Best What Is Life Quotes

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.

What is death all about? What is life all about?

What is life for? Life is for you.

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Everyone – pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist – has to answer these questions: ‘Where did I come from? What is life’s meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?’ Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life – you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can’t figure it out or doesn’t want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there’s no heartbeat and brainwaves.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

What is life without incompatible realities?

What is life without laughter?

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

I dreamed of myself in a dream, and told the dream, which was mine, as if it were another person’s of whom I dreamed. Indeed what is life when thinking of the past, but dreaming of a dream dreamt by another who seems to be oneself?

What is life without the joy of Love?

What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn’t?

What is life when living without the Lifemaker?

What is life, when wanting love?Night without a morning;Love’s the cloudless summer sun,Nature gay adorning.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they do not exist, or if they have no care for humankind, then what is life to me in a world devoid of gods, or devoid of providence? But they do exist, and they do care for humankind: and they have put it absolutely in man’s power to avoid falling into the true kinds of harm.

Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing from behind…. Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.

What is life but playing with time?

In the colored reflection we have Life.

And what is Life? – An hour-glass on the run

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That’s what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.

But what is life if you don’t live it?

There’s no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?