Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've taken everything, they're no longer in your power, they're free again.

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

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Time exists so that not everything happens at the same time... and space exists so that not everything happens to you.

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

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Time: what men always try to kill, but ends up killing them.

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

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Progress is not an accident, it is a necessity, a part of nature.

Germaine de Staël

Germaine de Staël

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The mystery of life is the connection between our mistakes and our misfortunes.

Svetlana Stalin

Svetlana Stalin

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I don't think one should lament about one's own destiny, but sometimes it's very tough.

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

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Everyone receives so much information throughout the day that they lose their common sense.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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The art of rest is a part of the art of working.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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Of all the animals in creation, man is the only one who drinks without being thirsty, eats without being hungry, and speaks without having anything to say.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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It's curious how distant a misfortune seems when it doesn't personally affect us.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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There is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only what people do.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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In front of us there are a thousand different lives we could live, but when it arrives, it will only be one.