Quotes about life

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Taylor Swift

I hate failure and that divorce was a number one failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Lucille Ball

Without literature, life is hell.

Charles Bukowski

If your financial intelligence is low, money will run all over you. It will be smarter than you. If money is smarter than you, you will work for it all your life. To be the master of money, you need to be smarter than it. Then money will do as it is told. It will obey you. Instead of being a slave to it, you will be the master of it. That is financial intelligence.

Robert Kiyosaki

It’s just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I’m not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people’s life, or health or whatever.

Warren Buffett

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

Robert Louis Stevenson

My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Iyanla Vanzant

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Albert Einstein

Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

Albert Einstein

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

Jesse Jackson