Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Smiles

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Samuel Richardson

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

Samuel Beckett

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Samuel Beckett

The end of a life is always vivifying.

Samuel Beckett

[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.

Samuel Beckett

What are we doing here, that is the question.

Samuel Beckett

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Samuel Foote

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

Samuel Butler

Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Hoffenstein

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

Samuel Beckett

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Samuel Beckett

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

Salvador Dali

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

Salvador Dali

Life is too short to remain unnoticed

Salvador Dali

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

Salvador Dali

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Salvador Dali

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

Salma Hayek

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Salman Rushdie

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

Salman Rushdie

How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

Salman Rushdie

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

Salman Rushdie

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

Salman Rushdie

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Salman Rushdie

What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

Waris Ahluwalia

My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

W. S. Merwin

We are not born to survive. Only to live.

W. S. Gilbert

Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!

W. S. Gilbert

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.