Quotes about life

I’ve never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it’s set me so far back, I just don’t’ have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.

Diana Nyad

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is essentially a People’s contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all — to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.

Abraham Lincoln

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don’t really live their life – they live like dead people.

Thich Nhat Hanh

When you’re climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Edmund Hillary

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

C. S. Lewis

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

Bertrand Russell

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here – our love will go on for generations.

Desmond Tutu

Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

Oscar Wilde