Quotes About Life

And did you get what you wanted in this life even so?
I did And what is it you wanted?
To call myself beloved To feel myself beloved on the earth.
- Raymond Carver

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals.
The most important things in life are human relations.
I found that out too late.
- Katharinde Susannah Prichard Australian Author

Life is not a static thing.
The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums,
and those in cemeteries.
- Everett McKinley Dirksen

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
- Muriel Spark

There is properly no history; only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love
the questions themselves. Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it,
live along some distant day into the answer.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

True, we love life, not because we are used to living,
but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love,
but there is also always some reason in madness
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Biography is the only true history.
- Thomas Carlyle

Every life has a story.
- A&E Biography

If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything.
You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
- Michael Chrichton

Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard