Life Quotes · Page 3

Reflect on the deeper meaning of existence with profound life quotes from philosophers, poets, and everyday wisdom. These quotes help you navigate the beautiful complexity of living.

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“The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.”

— Horace Walpole

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”

— E. M. Forster

“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”

— Edward Young

“Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it.”

— E. M. Forster

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Every one is the son of his own works.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed.”

— John Milton

“I am not now that which I have been.”

— Lord Byron

“What we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

— Anatole France

“Still ending, and beginning still.”

— William Cowper

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

— Francis Bacon

“Home to people like me is not a place but all places, all places except the one we happen to be in at the moment.”

— Anthony Burgess

“The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“No man loves life like him that's growing old.”

— Sophocles

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet.”

— Epictetus

“Although life is a matter of indifference, the use which you make of it is not a matter of indifference.”

— Epictetus

“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”

— Seneca

“The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.”

— Seneca

“The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.”

— Seneca

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