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.

“The most important things in life aren’t things.”
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

“Live the life you’ve dreamed.”
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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“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
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

“While living I want to live well.”
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

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”
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

“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
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

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

“You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.”
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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Jill Davis, author for Life So Ever
Jill Davis grew up on army bases in the USA and Germany and has spent her adult life on the East Coast. She resides in Virginia where she gets to enjoy lots of hiking trails, kayaking, and other outdoor adventures. No recipe intimidates her and she is always up to try most foods. Her second language is sarcasm and she always looks for the good in life.