Selection of philosophical life quotes, some funny, some tragic, ideal for imaginative and thought-provoking Facebook status updates.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
- Martin H. Fischer
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
- W. H. Davies
- The healthiest response to life is joy.
Deepak Chopra
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best…
And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life.
- Monty Python’s Life of Brian
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
- Chinese Proverb
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
- Joseph Addison
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
- Lillian Dickson
There is no wealth but life.
- John Ruskin
The Best Things in Life are Free.
- B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
- Oscar Wilde
Here’s to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
- Irish Saying
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
- Zeno
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Where there is love there is life.
- Indira Gandhi
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
- Reba McEntire
Life is nothing without friendship.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
- Charles Dickens
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
- Robert Herrick
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll need them on your way down.
- Wilson Mizner
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
The best of times is now.
- Oprah Winfrey
Whatever you are be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine… Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery.
- Buddha
In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.
- Charlie Brown
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
- R. D. Laing
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
- Thunder on the Left
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
- Emily Dickinson
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Kahlil Gibran
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
- J. D. Salinger
Life is what happens to you
While you’re busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re gonna get.
- Forrest Gump
Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
- Henry J. Tillman
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
- Wally ‘Famous’ Amos
Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.
- William Goldman
I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.
- Jack Handey
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
- Quentin Crisp
Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye
Live dangerously and you live right.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov
Life is an incurable disease.
- Abraham Cowley
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus