Life Quotes

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
– Gerard De Nerval
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
– Gerard De Nerval
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
– Gerard De Nerval
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
– Louise Nevelson
Growth is the only evidence of life.
– John Henry Cardinal Newman
I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
– Olivia Newton-John
I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.
– Olivia Newton-John
My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
– Olivia Newton-John
There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
– Olivia Newton-John
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
– Jack Nicklaus
I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.
– Stevie Nicks
Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
– Stevie Nicks
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
This secret spoke Life herself unto me: Behold, said she, I am that which must ever surpass itself.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?
– Earl Nightingale
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
– Earl Nightingale
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
– Earl Nightingale
I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
– Anais Nin
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
– Anais Nin
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
– Anais Nin
I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .
– David Niven
The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
– David Niven
Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
– David Niven
I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
– Pat Nixon
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
– Emil Nolde
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
– Chuck Noll
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.
– Nick Nolte
If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.
– Nick Nolte
You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can't run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I'm totally capable.
– Nick Nolte
Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
– Kathleen Norris
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
– Kathleen Norris
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
– Frank Norris
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
– Frank Norris
When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.
– Gary North
When you don't have a child to think about, life is a lot easier, but when you do, the thought process is a little different.
– Brandy Norwood
For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way. I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.
– Kim Novak
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
– Novalis
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
– Novalis
I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
– Ted Nugent
Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
– Ted Nugent
Political Correctness is about turning a blind eye to painful reality because your comfortable feelings are more important to you than saving lives and providing quality of life to people who work their ass off to be productive and are a benefit to this great American Dream.
– Ted Nugent
The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.
– Tom Naylor
Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
– Richard J. Needham
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
– Cornelius Nepos
So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.
– Cornelius Nepos
The ebb and flow of will is like the movements of the tides... if we cease our vain struggles and lamentations long enough to look away from the personal self...we realize life is going well with us after all.
– Charles B. Newcomb
We can not tell what may happen to you in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens to us, how we take it, what we do with it, and that is what really counts in the end.
– Joseph Fort Newton
Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
– Thandie Newton
You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money. When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. I'd like to thank you for giving me a part of your life tonight.
– Wayne Newton
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
– Ben Nicholas
There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.
– David Nichols
You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life.
– Hannah Nixon
Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
– Alex Noble
I have not been animated in my life to fight against race and sex discrimination simply because of my own identity. That would mean that one must be South African to fight apartheid, or a poor white in Appalachia to fight poverty, or Jewish to fight anti-Semitism. And I just reject that conception of how struggles should be waged.
– Eleanor Holmes Norton
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
– Henri Nouwen
Laughter is wine for the soul-laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
– Sean O'Casey
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
– Sean O'Casey
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
– Sean O'Casey
We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
– Tom O'Connor
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
– Georgia O'Keeffe
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
– Eugene O'Neill
I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
– Paul O'Neill
That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.
– Bill O'Reilly
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
– Joyce Carol Oates
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
– Joyce Carol Oates
Many are the people, Nigerians and non-Nigerians, dead and alive, that God has used and is still using in the course of my life journey.
– Olusegun Obasanjo
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.
– Olusegun Obasanjo
Suddenly life has new meaning to me,There's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, You wake up suddenly you're in love.
– Billy Ocean
Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
– Clifford Odets
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
– Clifford Odets
Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.
– Roger von Oech
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
– David M. Ogilvy
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
– David M. Ogilvy
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
– David M. Ogilvy
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.
– Ben Okri
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians.
– Ben Okri
I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
– Bruce Oldfield
Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
– John Oldham
While some no other cause for life can give ,but a dull habitude to live.
– John Oldham
College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
– Larisa Oleynik
I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
– Larisa Oleynik
I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
– Larisa Oleynik
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
– Margaret Oliphant
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
– Margaret Oliphant
Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.
– Frederick Scott Oliver
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
– Mary Oliver
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
– Mary Oliver
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
– Gene Oliver
I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.
– Sir Laurence Olivier