Quotes about life

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Every man carries the entire form of the human condition.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There is grandeur in this view of life.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Not all those who wander are lost.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by.

In the poem both roads are "really about the same"; the speaker only claims the difference later. Frost meant it partly as a joke.

Life is short, the art long.