Quotes of: Life-span Keyword

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

American

An old bachelor compares life with a shirt button that hangs often by a thread.

Chinese

Better ride a good horse for a year than an ass all your life.

Dutch

Most men employ the earlier part of their life to make the other miserable.

French

The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.

French

Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a little oil now and then.

Indian

It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living.

Japanese

Life? That is a candle in the wind; frost upon a roof; the twitching of the fish in a pan.

Japanese

Plan your life at New Year's eve, your day at dawn.

Japanese

Life is like a lamp flame; it needs a little oil now and then.

Kashmiri

Death does not come free of charge, for it costs us our life.

Russian

As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life.

Sanskrit

Ever since dying came into fashion, life hasn't been safe.

Traditional

Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.

The Choice

Of all the problems and complications in my life, I had not expected love to be one of them.

Crying Bloody Murder

Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays.

The Confessions of a Misfit

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

The Collected Poems

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

Carmilla

The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.

Curiosity

Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.

The Diary of Edward the Hamster 1990–1990