“Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it.”
Epictetus
AcceptanceStoicism
Life Quotes
100 FAMOUS QUOTES · LIFE
Life Quotes
Read the best life quotes on living well, time and meaning from Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Thiruvalluvar, Kabir, Basho, Emerson, Stevenson and more.
“Who knows if life be not death, and death be counted life below?”
Euripides
MysteryLife And Death
“Do not, my soul, aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.”
Pindar
Living FullyAmbition
“Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man.”
Seneca
LearningPurpose
“He who dies and yet does not perish has longevity.”
Lao Tzu
LegacyEternity
“Man's life between heaven and earth is like the passing of a white colt glimpsed through a crack in the wall; whoosh, and that's the end.”
Zhuangzi
BrevityTime
“Before long, alas, this body will lie on the earth, despised, without understanding, like a useless log.”
Buddha
ImpermanenceMortality
“All conditioned things are subject to decay. Strive on with diligence.”
Buddha (last words)
ImpermanenceEffort
“Doing works here, one should wish to live a hundred years.”
The Upanishads
Long LifeWork
“May we see a hundred autumns; may we live a hundred autumns.”
The Rig Veda
Long LifeBlessings
“Our heart is restless until it rests in thee.”
Saint Augustine
FaithPeace
“A good death does honour to a whole life.”
Petrarch
LegacyHonour
“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.”
Michel de Montaigne
MortalityWisdom
“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”
William Shakespeare
Famous LinesPhilosophy
“Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.”
Thomas Browne
Inner LightSpirit
“Every heart that beats strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
CheerfulnessLegacy
“O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring.”
Walt Whitman
QuestionsPoetry
“Dying is a wild night and a new road.”
Emily Dickinson
Life And DeathPoetry
“Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.”
The Bible (1 Chronicles 29:15)
BrevityFaith
“I have cut off like a weaver my life.”
The Bible (Isaiah 38:12)
MortalityReflection
“Life doesn't come with instructions, but it does come with people who love you. Ask them.”
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FamilyGuidance
“Life is too short to stay angry, too precious to waste and too beautiful to rush.”
WebFunFacts Team
Living WellPeace
“Life gets lighter when you stop carrying what was never yours to hold.”
WebFunFacts Team
Letting GoPeace
“A simple life with peace is richer than a fancy life with worry.”
WebFunFacts Team
Simple LivingPeace Of Mind
“Not everything needs a reaction. Some things just need to pass.”
WebFunFacts Team
CalmWisdom