130+ Famous Quotes About Life That’ll Make you Think Deep

Here are over 130 Famous Quotes About Life to inspire and motivate you. If you want to live a more fulfilled life, it’s necessary to seek out some truth that will help you reflect on yourself.

These quotes contain some deep and encouraging words from some people you are probably already familiar with.

There are some cheesy and funny ones too but that’s life and what we love about it eh.

Familiarize yourself with some of these amazing quotes and let them challenge you into the desired outcome in your own personal life and happiness.

1. “While we are postponing, life speeds by.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

2. “Life is extremely complicated.” – Robert Ludlum

3. “The most important things in life aren’t things.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

4. “The best things in life are usually difficult.” – Dirk Benedict

5. “Life well spent is long.” – Leonardo da Vinci

6. “A shady business never yields a sunny life.” – B. C. Forbes

7. “Without music, life is a journey through a desert.” – Pat Conroy

8. “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.” – Jane Austen

9. “As soon as there is life there is danger.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. “Live the life you’ve dreamed.” – Henry David Thoreau

11. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

12. “Live with all of your senses.” – Sue Townsend

13. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

14. “Life loves the liver of it.” – Maya Angelou

15. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

16. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

17. “Life is a series of commas, not periods.” – Matthew McConaughey

18. “Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.” – John Wayne

19. “You only live once.” – James Brown

20. “You’re not going to live your life unscathed.” – Kirstie Alley

21. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

22. “There are no regrets in life, just lessons.” – Jennifer Aniston

23. “Life is a dead-end street.” – H. L. Mencken

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24. “I think life’s an irrational obsession.” – Sean Penn

25. “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” – Katharine Hepburn

26. “Life is one big transition.” – Willie Stargell

27. “Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.” – Georges Carpentier

28. “In life you need either inspiration or desperation.” – Tony Robbins

29. “Life is one long jubilee.” – Ira Gershwin

30. “Life’s too short for chess.” – Henry James Byron

31. “Life is about timing.” – Carl Lewis

32. “While there’s life, there’s hope.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

33. “My life needs editing.” – Mort Sahl

34. “I find this life so interesting.” – Brittany Murphy

35. “Life is a state of consciousness.” – Emmet Fox

36. “Reality continues to ruin my life.” – Bill Watterson

37. “Dressing is a way of life.” – Yves Saint Laurent

38. “Total absence of humor renders life impossible.” – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

39. “Life is a means of extracting fiction.” – Robert Stone

40. “Life is a tragedy full of joy.” – Bernard Malamud

41. “Life is a zoo in a jungle.” – Peter De Vries

42. “While living I want to live well.” – Geronimo

43. “There’s nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.” – Robert De Niro

44. “I do not regret one moment of my life.” – Lillie Langtry

45. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton

46. “I don’t trust what this life has given me.” – Dennis Rodman

47. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

48. “I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.” – Saul Bellow

49. “Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

50. “Life is a long lesson in humility.” – James M. Barrie

51. “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

52. “Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.” – Jonathan Larson

53. “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde

54. “Sports is the toy department of human life.” – Howard Cosell

55. “Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.” – Ani DiFranco

56. “No one’s a virgin, life screws us all!” – A. J. McLean

57. “Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.” – Lou Reed

58. “I don’t need a man in my life.” – Enya

59. “I’ve spent my whole life with people underestimating me.” – Donna Shalala

60. “My biggest fear in life is fear.” – Sheryl Lee

61. “I intend to live forever, or die trying.” – Groucho Marx

62. “The great end of life is not knowledge but action.” – Francis Bacon

63. “Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.” – Ken Salazar

64. “Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan

65. “Life’s a journey, not a destination.” – Steven Tyler

66. “I have a rendezvous with life.” – Countee Cullen

67. “Even without wars, life is dangerous.” – Anne Sexton

68. “Life’s more amusing than we thought.” – Andrew Lang

69. “Growth is the only evidence of life.” – John Henry Newman

70. “Everything in life… has to have balance.” – Donna Karan

71. “Music is the soundtrack of your life.” – Dick Clark

72. “Life is beautiful but people are crazy.” – Charles Osgood

73. “Nothing in life is promised except death.” – Kanye West

74. “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” – David Herbert Lawrence

75. “We are all, right now, living the life we choose.” – Peter McWilliams

76. “I have no regrets about my life.” – Jane Badler

77. “Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.” – Sophocles

78. “Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.” – Janice Markowitz

79. “Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.” – Will Rogers

80. “This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.” – Jim Morrison

81. “My life’s a wreck, and I love it.” – Bo Bice

82. “Life is just one damned thing after another.” – Elbert Hubbard

83. “Life is too short for a long story.” – Mary Wortley Montagu

84. “Life is never easy for those who dream.” – Robert James Waller

85. “Where there is life there is wishful thinking.” – Gerald F. Lieberman

86. “Life is short, the art long.” – Hippocrates

87. “Life is to blame for everything.” – Robert Musil

88. “I believe life takes us where we need to be.” – Sasha Alexander

89. “Life is full of risks anyway, why not take them?” – Lindsay Lohan

90. “Life itself is the proper binge.” – Julia Child

91. “Life isn’t a tiptoe through the tulips.” – Shannon Hoon

92. “Life is too short not to experiment.” – Jamelia

93. “A happy wife is a happy life.” – Gavin Rossdale

94. “Old age is the verdict of life.” – Amelia Barr

95. “I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.” – Boris Becker

96. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” – Joseph Campbell

97. “Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.” – Abraham Cahan

98. “Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.” – Edwin Louis Cole

99. “Life is wasted on the living.” – Douglas Adams

100. “Life is always at some turning point.” – Irwin Edman

101. “Life will not break your heart. It’ll crush it.” – Henry Rollins

102. “I live a dramatic life, it’s just not on TV yet.” – Marc Wallice

103. “You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.” – Gloria Grahame

104. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Virginia Woolf

105. “To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.” – William James

106. “Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – John N. Mitchell

107. “I need this wild life, this freedom.” – Zane Grey

108. “Life is too short to blend in.” – Paris Hilton

109. “Make your life a mission – not an intermission.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

110. “My life has been one long descent into respectability.” – Mandy Rice-Davies

111. “Life! Can’t live with it, can’t live without it.” – Cynthia Nelms

112. “Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.” – Ross Perot

113. “Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.” – Ninette de Valois

114. “Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.” – Eugene O’Neill

115. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner

116. “I want to live my life, not record it.” – Jackie Kennedy

117. “Life ain’t always beautiful, but it’s a beautiful ride.” – Gary Allan

118. “Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.” – John Walters

119. “Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.” – Mike Watt

120. “I don’t need drugs to make my life tragic.” – Eddie Vedder

121. “I choose to live, not just exist.” – James Hetfield

122. “Those who live are those who fight.” – Victor Hugo

123. “My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.” – Evita Peron

124. “May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift

125. “I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” – Steven Wright

126. “If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?” – Doug Coupland

127. “We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.” – Jean Toomer

128. “I’m gonna live till I die.” – Frank Sinatra

129. “Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.” – Peabo Bryson

130. “I’m alive. That’s a good thing.” – Will Shields

131. “I need drama in my life to keep making music.” – Eminem

132. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

133. “Live constructively and live optimistically.” – Alfred A. Montapert

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